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We asked NPR photographers to share their favorite pictures and their thoughts about photographing Tiny Desk concerts in 2024.

The governor of Damascus faced major backlash in the Arab world for his comments about making peace with Israel. But what do Israelis and Syrians want?

No album in the history of the Billboard album chart has ever had a longer gap between stints at No. 1. Elsewhere, Christmas music dominates for one last week.

In the New Year, there will be supermoons, meteor showers and other exciting celestial events.

An emerging film festival in Lagos, Nigeria, is trying to change the stories mainstream Nigerian films tell.

Syrian refugees in Turkey are considering whether to return home following the ouster of Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad. But many remain worried about their country's future.

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the group that led the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.

2024 had a series of weather extremes and once in a lifetime events. Here is a look back at the top weather events of 2024.

NPR's health reporters followed the emerging science on what keeps our brains and our minds healthy. Here are highlights of the studies that piqued our readers' interest the most.

Throughout 2024 negotiations for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas were on again and off again. There were moments of great optimism and then months of no negotiations at all.