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.

Secret intelligence files show that missing U.S. journalist Austin Tice was imprisoned by the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria despite the regime’s longstanding denials, according to a report ...

Those include pressuring Russian President Vladimir Putin to ask al-Assad directly about Tice’s whereabouts and deploying an envoy to re-engage the Syrian government about Tice’s case.