President Joe Biden won praise for his meeting Monday with the parents of Austin Tice, a freelance journalist who disappeared while covering the Syrian civil war nearly a decade ago. But the family of a lesser-known American abducted in Syria say they are struggling to get Biden’s attention.
“It hurts,” said Maryam Kamalmaz, whose father Majd Kamalmaz was last seen at a government checkpoint near the Syrian capital Damascus in February 2017.