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American journalist Austin Tice's mother, in Damascus, hopes to find missing son

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Austin Tice was a freelance reporter for The Washington Post and McClatchy.

He was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012 .

His mother, Debra Tice , drove into the Syrian capital from Lebanon to step up the search for her son.

The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime in December by Syrian rebels has allowed her to visit again.

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English

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