Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew suggested that the drones were being launched from an Iranian "mothership" that was stationed off the East Coast.
This marks the first time the US has criminally prosecuted high-ranking Syrian officials for human rights abuses during Syria’s 13-year civil war.
Tuesday's meeting will be the first for the families since the IDF last week confirmed that New York-born Omer Neutra was killed on October 7 and Hamas has held his body since.
"For us, it's important to fund the opposite. It's important to fund all the people that need our help and all the soldiers and other people in Israel whose lives have been upended."
Tice, a former US Marine and a freelance journalist, was 31 when he was abducted in August 2012 while reporting in Damascus on the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The SDF had been holding the town in recent days amid intense fighting with the Syrian National Army (SNA) and other Turkey-backed groups.
Decades of brutal rule by Assad have left Syria fragmented ethnically, religiously, and politically.
This appears to be a show of force from the US to show the regime and militias not to get any ideas amid the chaos in Syria.
Bagheri further reportedly claimed that Israel and the US had coordinated the rebels' movement in the area.
The US noted that President Bashar al-Assad's "regime" has been part of an ongoing refusal to "engage in a political process," which has "created the conditions now unfolding."
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