Saudi officials say they have stopped more than 269,000 Muslims without permits for the Hajj pilgrimage from entering Mecca.

Saudi Arabia’s jaw-dropping $16 billion Makkah Royal Clock Tower isn’t just a timepiece – it’s a testament to ambition and engineering prowess. Rising over 600 meters above the holy city of Mecca, ...

Millions of Muslims are preparing to undertake Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca and one of the central pillars of Islam.

Once a year, large numbers of Muslim pilgrims converging on Saudi Arabia unite in religious rituals and acts of worship as ...

Saudi Arabia has stopped more than 269,000 people who tried to enter Mecca without official permits as the country prepares ...

Hajj is the major Islamic pilgrimage to Makkah – one of Islam's five pillars – and is required once in a lifetime for all ...

It is Islam's holiest pilgrimage, but the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which begins on Wednesday, has in recent decades ...

The suspension, which affected 14 countries in all, impacted other nations such as Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, India, ...

With temperatures soaring above 40°C and last year’s death toll exceeding 1,300, authorities are deploying 250,000 personnel ...

More than a million Muslim pilgrims poured into the holy city of Mecca ahead of the annual hajj, with authorities vowing to ...