Makkah

Ahead of the hajj, which starts next week, Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday that security agents have removed hundreds of thousands of unregistered pilgrims from Makkah. One of the five pillars of Islam, the annual pilgrimage,...

Saudi authorities said Monday only people immunised against Covid-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round umrah pilgrimage from the start of Ramadan, the holy fasting month for Muslims. The hajj and umrah ministry said in...

A Bangladeshi man has thrown himself to death from the first floor into the Kaaba circumambulation area in the second suicide case at the Haram Sharif Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s Makkah in one week. A...