In the early days of 2013, an American man, dressed in ragged clothing, dodged between houses in the streets of Damascus’ upscale Mazzeh neighborhood looking for a civilian to take him to safety after more than five months of captivity in the concrete cells of a local prison.

The brother of Austin Tice, Jacob, says they believe every effort is being made to find the journalist in Syria

Amid speculation that the man shown in the video is not Austin Tice, NBC foreign correspondent Matt Bradley shared that he spoke to the man, who gave a different name