{"id":409185,"date":"2026-08-17T21:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409185\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T21:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T21:20:18","slug":"cornyn-calls-for-renewed-efforts-to-secure-release-of-austin-tice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409185\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornyn Calls for Renewed Efforts to Secure Release of Austin Tice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Age-progressed<\/a>Age-progressed photo of Austin Tice as of 2024 via Wikimedia Public Domain. Bgd for illustration purposes<\/p>\n

Texas Border Business<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Senator John Cornyn<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released a statement urging President Donald J. Trump and his administration to prioritize\u00a0efforts to secure the return of Austin Tice, an American journalist,\u00a0Houston native, and Marine veteran,\u00a0as we mark the somber milestone of Tice being held captive\u00a0in Syria for\u00a014 years on Aug. 14. Sen. Cornyn\u00a0has been\u00a0drawing focus<\/a>\u00a0to Tice\u2019s case for more than a decade, including after the fall\u00a0of theregime of Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n

\u201cFourteen years ago, Austin Tice, a Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was detained at a checkpoint in Syria while working as a freelance journalist,\u201d\u00a0said Sen. Cornyn.\u00a0\u201cAustin and other Americans in captivity around the world deserve the full and active support of our government to secure their release, and as we mark the grim anniversary of Austin\u2019s captivity today, I urge the Trump administration to redouble their efforts to bring him home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Background:<\/p>\n

While covering the Syrian Civil War as a journalist in 2012, Austin Tice was abducted in Syria by the Assad regime.<\/p>\n

Sen. Cornyn has met with the Tice family several times since Austin\u2019s capture and has discussed Austin Tice\u2019s case with President Trump on multiple occasions. In the first Trump administration, he regularly communicated about the case with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Advisor Robert O\u2019Brien, and U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Ambassador Roger Carstens.<\/p>\n

Additionally, he has sent letters asking that presidential administrations use all of their resources to locate Austin and keep the Tice family informed of any updates on his whereabouts. These letters have been sent to former Secretary of State John Kerry in 2013, to President Obama in 2014 and 2016, and to the Biden administration\u00a0multiple<\/a>\u00a0times<\/a>\u00a0in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Age-progressed photo of Austin Tice as of 2024 via Wikimedia Public Domain. Bgd for illustration purposes Texas Border…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,102275,3309,101590,142930,142931,17652],"class_list":["post-409185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-tice","tag-john-cornyn","tag-syria","tag-us-marine-corps","tag-usmc","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}