US says new Syria rulers helping in hunt for reporter Tice

US diplomats, paying the first visit to Damascus since Islamist-led rebels toppled strongman Bashar al-Assad earlier this month, said they told the new Islamist-led authorities of their priority of finding Tice and other missing Americans. "We feel it's our duty as the US government to press on until we know with certainty what happened to him, where he is and to bring him home," said Roger Carstens, the US pointman on hostages. He said that he worked Friday with the new Syrian leadership to search a location where Tice could have been held.