Saudi Arabia has barred more than 269,000 people without permits for the annual Hajj pilgrimage from entering Mecca this week ...

A Saudi government spokesperson says more than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims are in the country for this year's Hajj.

The kingdom has installed hundreds of coolers and cracked down on unregistered Muslim pilgrims, after 1,300 people died last ...

Saudi Arabia has deployed over 50,000 health workers and introduced advanced technologies to protect the health of pilgrims ...

Tens of thousands of Muslim pilgrims are spending the day in prayer in Arafat to fulfil a key ritual of the Hajj in Saudi ...

Saudi Arabia's Hajj overhaul includes policy updates and high-tech safety measures following last year's heat deaths.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived on Thursday in Mina, on Mecca’s outskirts, to oversee measures taken ...

While millions converge on Mecca, record temperatures and unregistered pilgrims put the kingdom's measures to the test.

Every year, millions of Muslims journey to Mecca to fulfil the Hajj pilgrimage, a religious duty and deeply personal ...

Millions of Muslims have gathered in Mecca, marking the beginning of the five-day Hajj pilgrimage —the world's largest annual religious gathering. It is year 1446 in the Islamic calendar. Pilgrims are ...

Around 1.4 million faithful from across the globe will descend on Mecca and its surrounds for the 2025 haj pilgrimmage. Read ...

This year, the Arafat sermon will be translated and transmitted live in real time into 35 languages, allowing millions around ...