United States President Donald Trump has announced that Washington is exploring the normalisation of ties with Damascus, following a historic meeting with Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa – the first such encounter in over two decades.

The town of Damascus is hosting its annual Trail Days festival May 16-18. Eight months after Hurricane Helene devastated the small Southwest Virginia town, residents are rebuilding, and businesses are seeing tourists return.

Nearly eight months after Hurricane Helene, the 700-resident town of Damascus, Va., is ready for over 25,000 people to descend for the annual Appalachian Trail Days Festival on May 16-18.

Druze residents near Syria's capital are resisting a demand by the Islamist-led government to hand in their light weapons, saying authorities have yet to address fears of new attacks by Sunni Muslim militants after days of sectarian violence.

Syria strongly condemned foreign intervention following a rare Israeli strike near Damascus on Wednesday amid deadly sectarian violence.

The Israeli military said Wednesday that the raids in Syria targeted “operatives” who attacked Druze civilians.

Experimenting with chainsaw chain steel to create Damascus. This video covers the process of forging a solid bar from chain pieces, highlighting the challenges of using non-homogeneous material with potential weak spots.

The videos cover various DIY woodworking and guitar-making techniques. The first explores creating a crazy, scalloped fingerboard for a radical instrument using CNC woodworking. The second video focuses on crafting a Damascus Micarta guitar fingerboard.