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.

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.

Syria on Saturday detained a prominent Damascus-based Palestinian official whose group was close to the government of ousted president Bashar Assad. Talal Naji, 79, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command,

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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.

Sharaa, the president of Syria, and Mazloum Abdi, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces, signed a historic agreement, ending a long-running divide between Damascus and the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.