The mother of US journalist Austin Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012, said that the country's new leadership was committed to finding him.

Austin Tice, who worked as a freelance reporter for the Washington Post and McClatchy, was one of the first US journalists to make it into Syria.

Debra Tice is back in Syria for the first time for over 10 years searching for her son who has been missing since 2012.

For the first time in a decade, Debra Tice, the mother of missing American journalist, Austin Tice, returns to Syria to find news of her son.

The mother of US journalist Austin Tice said on Monday that Syria's new transitional government was “very keen to work” on her son’s case after meeting its leader. Austin Tice, 43, disappeared in August 2012,