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.

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.

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.

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.

A war monitor and an activist group say clashes broke out in the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters.

A former al-Qaeda member, Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa is seeking to rework his approach to the West after embarking on a mission to actively woo the US, in a bid to rebuild the country, which has been under sanctions for over a decade.

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

DAMASCUS - The Syria Specialized Exhibition Series 2025 opened on Wednesday and runs through Sunday.The exhibition is taking place as the new government in Damascus is working to rebuild the war-torn country.

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

Syria’s capital is confronting its most severe water shortage in nearly 70 years after its main water source, the Ain al-Fijeh spring, fell to record-low levels due to an exceptionally dry winter. Officials said Monday that the current flow is the lowest since 1958.