“A person went missing 12 years ago, we understand what situation was there back then,” Putin said in response to a question from NBC News' Keir Simmons.
“The current situation in Syria compels us to ask for your help in find Austin and safely reuniting our family,” wrote Debra Tice, whose son went missing in Syria in 2012.
“We are talking about a system of state terror," Stephen Rapp, former U.S. war crimes ambassador at large, said of how people lived in Syria under the Assad regime.