By Maya Gebeily DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, arrived in Damascus on Saturday to step up the search for her son and said she hopes she can take him home with her.

DAMASCUS, Syria — The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who has been missing in Syria since 2012, said Monday during a visit to the Syrian capital that the incoming Trump administration has offered to help uncover long-awaited answers about the fate of her son.

Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism (SIRAJ), a collective of journalists and OCCRP partner, found the documents in late December while combing through files left behind during the hasty collapse of the Assad regime earlier that month.

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice said on Monday she was hopeful that the new administrations in the U.S. and Syria would help her find her missing son, who was taken captive during a reporting trip near Damascus about 12 years ago.

Trump’s “people have already reached out to me. I haven’t experienced that for the last four years,” Debra Tice said. “I have great hope that the Trump administration will sincerely

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The mother of American journalist Austin Tice said Monday that the Trump administration had offered support to help find her son, who disappeared in Syria in 2012.

The mother of U.S. journalist Austin Tice says she has been in contact with incoming Trump administration officials about locating her son, who has been missing in Syria since 2012. “I have great

Hostage aid group searches Syrian prisons and other locations for the journalist and former US Marine, who has been missing since 2012

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.

Mother Debra Tice says she has renewed faith in the U.S. government's efforts to locate her son, who has been missing for thirteen years.

The mother of American journalist Austin Tice said Monday that the incoming Trump administration had offered its support in finding her son, who went missing in Syria in 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.