The US government is rushing to uncover new information on the whereabouts of Austin Tice following the collapse of the Syrian government this weekend.
The stunning fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime presents an opportunity to try to gather fresh intelligence about the American journalist who was detained in Syria more than a decade ago, current and former US officials said. One US official told CNN that there is a “full-court press” to find Tice and that the US is “leaving no stone unturned.” The FBI on Sunday renewed its offer of up to $1 million for information that leads to Tice’s safe return.
“It is likely that the and the rest of the intelligence community, which has had difficulty operating in that very challenging space … since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, they are likely pushing back in and trying to reestablish collection platforms from on the ground, rather than doing it from a distance,” the former official told CNN.
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