Major General Bassam Al Hassan claims former Syrian President Assad ordered Austin Tice's execution.

The U.S. government is investigating claims by a former senior Syrian official that Marine veteran and freelance journalist Austin Tice was killed in Syria in 2013 at the order of then-President ...

An American journalist who went missing in Syria more than a decade ago was executed on orders from then-President Bashar al-Assad. That's according to Major General Bassam Al Hassan, the man ...

The general, Bassam Hassan, is said to have shared grim news about the fate of Austin Tice, an American journalist and former Marine who went missing in 2012.

In the seven months since the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, one name has stayed near the top of the Trump administration’s agenda: Austin Tice. The American citizen vanished ...