MECCA, Saudi Arabia, July 21 (Reuters) - Inspired by her late father's career, Mona decided to join the military and the first group of Saudi women soldiers to work in Islam's holiest sites, where ...

Over 2 million Muslims will take part in this week's Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, as one of the world's largest religious gatherings returns to full capacity ...

As the annual Hajj pilgrimage draws to a close, a long-settled corner of Mecca is stirring up a storm thousands of miles away in India - not for its spiritual significance, but for a 50-year-old ...

A stampede at one of the last rituals of the Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, kills more than 700 people and injures hundreds in Saudi Arabia.

In February 2016, the photographer Luca Locatelli traveled to Mecca during umrah, a minor pilgrimage that can be made for much of the year. He received permission from the Saudi Arabian ...

Mecca: Saudi Arabia launches Hajj permit crackdown in bid to stop heat deaths. Saudi officials said they had stopped 269,678 people without permits from entering the city. Baraa Anwer.

The family of an elderly Indonesian man who died during this year’s Hajj is happy he was buried in the holy city of Mecca, his daughter said, as the Southeast Asian nation mourns hundreds of its ...

NABEELAH SHAIKH. A BRITISH muezzin – who gives the adhan or call to prayer – was in Durban this week to teach locals how to perfect their recitation.