RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi authorities have raised the death toll in a construction crane collapse at Mecca's Grand Mosque to 107. The country's civil defense authority tweeted early Saturday that ...

Saudi authorities have significantly tightened regulations for Hajj 2026 amid concerns over overcrowding, illegal pilgrimage ...

FILE - Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shield themselves from the sun as they gather outside Nimrah Mosque to offer the noon prayers in Arafat, on the second day of the annual hajj pilgrimage, near ...

RIYADH — Makkah Deputy Emir and Vice Chairman of the Permanent Committee for Hajj and Umrah Prince Saud bin Mishaal visited on Sunday the Grand Mosque in Makkah to inspect the readiness of the Mataf ...

Cairo: Starting from today, 167 additional mosques will open their doors for the faithful to perform the Friday congregation and Eid prayers across the Saudi holy city of Mecca, bringing to 849 the ...

The final month of the Islamic calendar, Dhul Hijjah, has begun. Some Muslims will prepare to make their way to Saudi Arabia to perform an obligatory spiritual journey called Hajj, or pilgrimage. The ...

As temperatures soar across the region, Saudi Arabia has activated the world’s largest cooling system in the Grand Mosque in ...

MAKKAH — Saudi citizens and expatriates in the Kingdom as well as citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are permitted to perform Umrah rituals until Dhul Qada 15, corresponding to May ...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday launched a development next to Mecca's Grand Mosque that will add around 900,000 indoor and outdoor praying spaces, the firm tasked with ...

MAKKAH — The General Authority for the Care of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque has allocated dedicated passages for elderly people and persons with disabilities inside the ...

As millions of Muslim pilgrims from across the globe poured into Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage, posts falsely ...