With artificial intelligence, more shade and misting machines, Saudi authorities are preparing to welcome more than a million ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — For Zainab Abdu ... Wedding halls are tucked away from sacred areas. “It is a holy city, and that needs to be respected,” Abdu said. “There is music at birthdays ...

Muslims arrived in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday (May 28) to attend the 2025 hajj pilgrimage season.

Saudi Arabia has announced that the Hajj, the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca, will start next ...

As the sacred day of Eid Al Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, draws near, a profound sense of devotion and gratitude sweeps ...

Around 1.1 million pilgrims from abroad arrived in Saudi Arabia until Monday to perform the Hajj in and around the holy city of Mecca. SPA file Cairo: Saudi civil defence authorities have imposed ...

Arafat Day will fall on June 5, while Eid al-Adha will fall the following day, according to the Saudi Press Agency.

You can get in touch with Maya by emailing m.mehrara@newsweek.com. Satellite images show that Mecca, a holy city according to Islam, has flooded after Saudi Arabia was hit with torrential rains ...

Heavy rains lashed Mecca on Thursday, bringing thunderstorms and torrents that swept through the holy city and surrounding areas. Videos shared widely on social media captured the intensity of the ...

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 ...