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 ...

U.S. officials are investigating an uncorroborated account from a high-ranking former Syrian official that American freelance journalist Austin Tice was executed in 2013.

Hassan told the FBI he tried to dissuade Assad from having Tice killed but that the American was killed by a subordinate in 2013 after he had briefly escaped from his prison cell, The Post reported.

News about Bashar al-Assad, ... 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.