Maya Rodriguez is a National Correspondent, reporting for all E.W. Scripps television stations across the country. She is based in Washington, D.C., but she travels extensively from coast to coast and around the world for stories of interest.
The U.S. official in charge of hostage negotiations has been sent to the Middle East to try and secure the release of missing reporter Austin Tice.Roger Carstens, Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, is in Lebanon as part of an effort to find Tice and bring him home.The former U.S. Marine and freelance journalist disappeared in August 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war for various news outlets.
Family of kidnapped American reporter still believes he is alive in SyriaThe fall of Bashar al-Assad may offer a new opportunity to locate Tice.The Syrian Civil Defense, a rescue group known as the 'White Helmets,' says it has ended a search of the notorious Sednaya Prison in Damascus. It's where the Assad regime held thousands of political prisoners in deplorable conditions.Tice was not found at the prison, so it's still unclear where he may be.
Prisoner swaps draw renewed attention to Austin Tice's 12 years in SyriaA U.S. State Department spokesperson would not elaborate on whether Carstens would be traveling into Syria in the search for Tice. However, he noted that 'everything possible' is done to bring home Americans who are unjustly detained.
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