The Middle East is a raging inferno with Saudi Arabia warning Iran of retaliation after it hit Riyadh. Shia powerhouse Iran ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - As a child, Osama al-Bar would walk from his home past Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba, to the market of spice and fabric merchants where his father owned a store. At that time, ...

To accommodate the growing influx of pilgrims, the Saudi government built numerous hotels in Mecca in the early 2000s. The ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Billboards line the Umm Al Qura highway leading to the Grand Mosque in Mecca, displaying manicured public spaces, glass-fronted stores and sleek towers. It’s part of a $26 ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — More than 2 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage at first light Sunday in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba in Mecca that Islam's faithful face five times ...

Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Sept. 15, 2015. Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the ...

The number of fatalities was confirmed by the Saudi Civil Defense. — -- At least 107 people have been killed and 238 others injured after a crane collapsed at the Grand Mosque in Mecca in Saudi ...

At the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the booming call to prayer competes with the racket of construction. The Grand Mosque is the destination for the most sacred Muslim pilgrimage and it holds ...

In “Open Mecca, Crown Prince Mohammed” (Houses of Worship, Aug. 5), Daniel Pipes mentions only “three cases of non-Muslims surreptitiously” entering Mecca. There was a fourth case, but it was with the ...