Rome — An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks and whose fate became linked to that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States was released Wednesday and is returning home, Italian officials said. A plane carrying Cecilia Sala took off from Tehran after “intensive work on diplomatic and intelligence channels”, Prime … Read more
Roger Carstens, the Biden administration’s top official for the release of Americans detained abroad, is in Syria on a high-risk mission: making the first known face-to-face contact with the interim government and asking for help find missing American journalist Austin Tice. Carsten spoke to CBS News in an exclusive interview for “Face the Nation.”
The collapse of the Syrian government raises new hope: Austin Tice, an American journalist who disappeared in 2012 while covering the civil war in Syria, will be found. President Biden said Sunday he believed Tice was alive, but admitted there was no direct evidence. Tice’s parents spoke to “CBS Mornings” about their renewed hope.
Two Somali pirates sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping American journalist Michael Scott Moore and held him hostage for 977 days, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Moore, a freelance journalist, traveled to Somalia in 2012 to study piracy and the country’s economy. On January 21, he was kidnapped by several heavily armed men and … Read more