Mina, June 4, 2025, SPA -- Assistant Minister of Interior for Technology Affairs Prince Dr. Bandar bin Abdullah bin Mishari yesterday visited several command and operations centers in Makkah, ...

Makkah, June 03, 2025, SPA -- Minister of Transport and Logistic Services Saleh Al-Jasser inspected on Monday evening the readiness of the transport ecosystem in Makkah and Jeddah, reviewing the ...

The General Authority for the Care of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque has begun deploying advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems with sensor readers at the gates of the Grand Mosque ...

Muslim pilgrims offer prayers at top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the ...

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

With temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), robed pilgrims slowly circled the Kaaba, the black cube at the heart of Mecca's Grand Mosque which is Islam's holiest site.

The technology has proven pivotal to track the overwhelming amount of footage from more than 15,000 cameras in and around the holy city of Mecca. The systems are tuned to spot abnormal crowd movements ...

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 ...