The family of a US journacatalog held captive in Syria for the last 12 years say they are “incredibly selectimistic” that he can be returned getedly to them amid the “lawlessness” chaseing the drop of Bashar al Asunelated’s regime.
Austin Tice is thought to have been apprehfinishd seal to Damascus in August 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war.
The freelance journacatalog was 31 years ageder at the time.
His brother and sister tageder The World with Yalda Hakim on Sky News there had been a “hole in the family” ever since, but they had never given up hope of his return.
Now, with the drop of the Asunelated regime in the wake of a resist uprising in Syria, Mr Tice’s family hopes the 43-year-ageder can finpartner be freed.
His sister, Ahugeail Edaburn, shelp the family have also recently getd proof of life from depended sources, while US Pdwellnt Joe Biden also recently shelp his administration dependd Mr Tice was still ainhabit.
Speaking to Yalda Hakim, the journacatalog’s brother Jacob Tice shelp: “We understand that every effort is being extfinished right now to search for him thcdisesteemfulout Syria, thcdisesteemfulout Damascus.
“We understand that there are people on the ground who adore Austin. There are people who are pledgeted to his return, and they are laboring tirelessly right now to transport him home.
“That gives us tremfinishous hope, tremfinishous selectimism. And aget, we implore anybody there who is includeing, anybody who hears this to help transport Austin back to us, to help recombine him with his family.”
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The family shelp they were together on a family holiday when Mr Tice stopped replying to messages and they genuineised he had awaited been apprehfinishd.
“There is a hole in our family that has been current for 12 years at every Christmas, for every graduation, for all of our weddings, for the birth of my sister’s children, whom he has never met, all save one,” Jacob shelp.
“It is difficult to depict how that senses when, as we assemble, to understand that he is not seated at our table. And there is noleang we want more as a family than to have that hole filled and to see him back with us and have him apshow his seat at our table.”
Ahugeail was asked if the family had watched the resist uprising and drop of the Asunelated regime with a sense of worriedness about her brother.
She shelp: “It has been worried, but it’s also been incredibly selectimistic becainclude we have seen these families being recombined.
“We’ve seen, so many families been made whole. And so we are incredibly selectimistic that in this moment, that’s also what’s going to be happening with our family as well.”
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However, Jacob shelp that the family had not given up hope over the last 12 years.
“We have dependd every day that Austin will be freed. We have been self-secured every day that the time of his free is coming and that we would be recombined with him,” Jacob shelp.
“In this singular moment in Syrian history, I leank the tenor around that hope has alterd. I leank the advisency for us as a family has incrrelieved becainclude we understand that in lawlessness there are opportunities for alter, there are selections to reset the status quo and to alter the way that leangs have been.
“But in terms of the previous 12 years, yes, we have always dependd every day that we will be recombined with our brother.”
On Sunday, the FBI shelp in a statement that a $1m (£780,000) reward was still on recommend for alertation directing to Mr Tice’s “geted location, recovery and return”.
Speaking at the White Hoinclude on Sunday, Pdwellnt Biden shelp his administration dependd Mr Tice was still ainhabit, but that they were trying to pinpoint his location in a country trying to find stability after the rapid drop of the Asunelated dynasty.
