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 ...

Debra Tice, Austin's mother, traveled to Beirut in May with the hopes of meeting with Hassan. "I wanted to talk to him as a mother, not as an interrogator," she told The Post.

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.