Austin Tice
American journalist and war correspondent · United States · On the map · Journalists · Born 1981 · age 45
Austin Bennett Tice is an American freelance journalist and veteran U.S. Marine Corps captain. Kidnapped on August 13, 2012, while reporting in Syria, Tice is the longest detained American journalist in history and the second-longest detained journalist in the world after Dawit Isaak.
Austin Tice is read about 701 times a day, in 7 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 113 days, one point a day.
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Beginning in 2012, the U.S. government maintained that Tice was being held by the Bashar al-Assad regime. This was confirmed in June 2025 by Syrian intelligence files uncovered by the BBC and by statements from former Syrian officials after the fall of Assad.
