Thousands of years ago Allah commanded his prophet Abraham to leave his wife Hajra and her infant child Ishmael alone in a desert Ishmael felt thirsty and started crying Looking for water Hajra ran ba ...

The fire at the hotel located at Shari Mansur Street in Mecca, occurred around 12:00 noon Saudi time on Saturday.

Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. (AP video shot by: Mark Vancleave) ...

The Kaaba, a cube-shaped structure, is the focal point toward which Muslims face during their daily prayers from anywhere in ...

The annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia has begun. It’s required once in a lifetime by every Muslim who can ...

Iran warned European powers Friday against backing a draft resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency next week ...

The holiday’s arrival cast a spotlight on deepening humanitarian crises, leadership transitions and shifting regional ...

Three Spanish Muslims who rode on horseback to the Hajj in Saudi Arabia say they followed a path not traveled for more than ...

Pilgrims were set to perform the last major ritual of the hajj -- the "stoning of the devil" -- on Friday, as Muslims around ...

More than 1.6 million Muslims are completing a core element of the Hajj, the symbolic stoning of the devil. For some, the ...

Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, the second of the two main festivals in Islam alongside Eid al-Fitr. Eid al-Adha is a major Islamic holiday that commemorates Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to ...

Muslim pilgrims walk around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in the ...