In a major move to enhance safety during Hajj and Umrah, Saudi Arabia has deployed 18 advanced weather monitoring stations ...

More than a million Muslim pilgrims poured into the holy city of Mecca ahead of the annual hajj, with authorities vowing to hold a safer pilgrimage amid searing desert heat and a massive crackdown on ...

The weather will be hot to extremely hot at the holy sites during the Hajj rites Cairo: The visit hours to an Islamic landmark near the Saudi holy city of Mecca have been shortened for months due ...

It is unknown if the heavy rainfall has severely damaged infrastructure in Mecca or other affected cities, and what ramifications the weather could have for future pilgrimages to the region.

Egypt has not yet shared an official count, but other countries whose citizens flocked to the holy city of Mecca have been reporting tolls: at least 138 from Indonesia, 41 from Jordan and 35 from ...