A source has claimed that Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad approved the abduction of US journalist Austin Tice, whose kidnapping was allegedly planned by the Assad regime over a period of several weeks.
The claim concerns Tice, a US journalist who was abducted in Syria. The supplied material does not provide further details about the alleged planning process, those involved or the circumstances of his disappearance.
The allegation places responsibility for the reported operation at the level of Assad’s former government, but it remains presented as a claim from a source rather than as an independently established fact in the available material.
No further official response, evidence or details about Tice’s current situation are included in the supplied account.
