Biden: US knows ‘with certainty’ Syria holding missing journalist Austin Tice

President urges regime, which denies involvement, to release Tice, who disappeared in 2012 covering Syrian war

Joe Biden has said that the US knows with certainty" that the Syrian government is holding Austin Tice - an American journalist who has been missing for a decade - and called on Damascus to release him.

Ten years after the freelance reporter disappeared while reporting on the Syrian war, Biden said the US government knows that [Tice] has been held by the Syrian regime".