The initiative includes full Wi-Fi coverage across the Grand Mosque in Makkah (Masjid Al-Haram), the Prophet’s Mosque in ...

Working day and night in front of maps, screens and seemingly endless data, Saudi officials have harnessed artificial ...

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

The Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has significantly increased the electrical grid capacity in the holy sites for this Hajj ...

Muslim pilgrims prayed atop Mount Arafat on Thursday during the high point of the annual hajj pilgrimage, as Saudi officials ...

Over 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for Hajj, a vital Islamic practice. Despite intense heat, ...

In our news wrap Wednesday, President Trump said Putin told him Russia would respond to Ukraine's drone attack on airfields, ...

Saudi Arabia has stopped almost 360,000 participants without permits from entering Mecca, after many of these illegal died ...

As the hajj pilgrimage approaches, visitors are flocking to the ‘Museum of the Holy Quran’ in Mecca, eager to explore its rare collection of Koranic artifacts.

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Shu’aibu Jibrin, a Nigerian pilgrim who hailed from Kano state died in Makkah less than 24 hours before the commencement of ...

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