There is a report that the Biden administration has renewed direct talks with Syria on the fate of American freelance journalist Austin Tice and other Americans who disappeared covering the country’s civil war. Austin disappeared in 2012. Officials say that U.S. negotiators have met with Syrian government officials, building momentum in efforts to help Austin. There has not been a breakthrough yet but Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is slowly breaking out of a decade of international isolation caused by his deadly response to the civil war.Read More