US information indicates death of American who disappeared in Syria in 2017

American officials have found strong evidence that a man from the US who went missing in Syria seven years ago has passed away, according to his daughter.

Maryam Kamalmaz talked to The Associated Press and said that she met with eight important American officials in Washington. They gave her a lot of information about her father, Majd, who is a therapist from Texas and is believed to be dead.

The officials said they were very confident about her father’s death. She asked if other detained Americans had been rescued in similar situations, and they said no.

“What else do I need. A lot of important people confirmed to us that he’s really gone. ” Maryam Kamalmaz said there was no way to avoid the truth.

She said the officials told her that they think her father died many years ago, at the beginning of his time in captivity. In 2020, she was told by officials that they thought he died from a heart problem in 2017, but the family still had hope and US officials kept looking for him.

She said that they didn’t confirm how trustworthy the information is until this meeting and the different levels of checking it had to go through.

She did not explain what she learned about being smart.

Representatives from the White House and the FBI, who look into kidnappings in other countries, did not respond right away to requests for comments on Saturday.

Majd Kamalmaz went missing in February 2017, when he was 59 years old, while he was traveling in Syria to see an old family member. The FBI said that he was stopped at a checkpoint in Syria and nobody has heard from him since.

Kamalmaz and other Americans have gone missing in Syria. One of them is Austin Tice, a journalist who disappeared in 2012 at a checkpoint near Damascus. Syria says they are not keeping any Americans as prisoners.

In 2020, during the end of Donald Trump’s time as president, important officials went to Damascus to have a big meeting to try and get the Americans released. The meeting didn’t go well. The Syrians didn’t show any proof that the person is alive and made demands that US officials thought were not reasonable. US officials are still working to bring Tice back home.