Despite reports that Kayla Mueller was the last American hostage in Syria, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday that there is at least one hostage being held in the region.
Earnest would not name names, and did not say if the person was being held by ISIS or another group. Several Americans have gone missing in Syria over the past four years, New York reports, including Austin Tice, a freelance journalist who was kidnapped in 2012. It is believed that Tice was at first held by Bashar al-Assad's forces, but his current whereabouts are unknown. His family, hoping to bring attention to his plight, began to use the hashtag #FreeAustinTice on Twitter Tuesday.
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