When Muslim women wear a head covering in much of American storytelling, it means they're exotic yet ignorant, oppressed yet dangerous - an ethnic, cultural and religious other. Achieving something ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Here is a look at the hajj, one of the largest mass gatherings in the world, which starts in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. * The hajj is an annual pilgrimage that millions of Muslims ...

Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shade themselves from the sun as they arrive at the base of Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal al-Rahma or Mount of Mercy, during the annual hajj pilgrimage on June 15, ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia -- Despite all the safety precautions, all it took was some dropped baggage in the midst of a jostling crowd of thousands of pilgrims to cause a deadly crush at Islam's annual hajj.

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, required of able-bodied Muslims once in their life, brings the Islamic world together across its many languages, ethnicities and ...

Millions of Muslims from all over the world have converged on Mecca in Saudi Arabia to partake in Islam's annual hajj pilgrimage, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. Earlier this ...