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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Saudi Arabia has banned certain types of visas for travelers from 14 countries, weeks before the annual Muslim pilgrimage known as Hajj. The country is clamping down on visa numbers by temporarily ...

Four years ago, Osama bin Laden's relatives, worried about his ill health, tried to use the pilgrimage as a cover to visit the Saudi-born terrorist while he was holed up in Afghanistan, says a former ...