A viral video showing a security officer confronting pilgrims at the Grand Mosque in Makkah has sparked public outrage and ...

Here’s a look at Hajj, an annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. On average, more than two million Muslims a year perform the pilgrimage. Facts May 25-30, 2026 – The Hajj pilgrimage is scheduled ...

ALBAWABA - There was a lot of controversy recently when video footage of pilgrims circling around a copy of the Kaaba in Nigeria rather than Saudi Arabia surfaced. Some viewed this as a slight to the ...

A viral video of a security officer dragging a woman near the Kaaba has sparked outrage. Saudi Arabias Special Forces ...

An aerial view taken on March 5, 2020 shows the white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba, inside Makkah´s Grand Mosque, empty of worshippers. Saudi Arabia today emptied Islam´s holiest site for ...

The Kiswa is replaced once a year on the 9th day of the month of Dul Hijjah after the pilgrims go to Mount Arafat. On behalf of King Salman, Makkah Gov. Prince Khalid Al-Faisal on Wednesday handed ...

A new virtual reality experience at the Sharjah International Book Fair allows visitors to step back 1,400 years and explore ...

The structure that stands high in the middle of Makkah's Masjid Al-Haram is the Holy Kaaba -- the most sacred site in Islam. Considered the 'House of Allah', Muslims the world over turn towards it ...

The National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics in Egypt has announced that the first day of this year’s Ramadan, which is set to take place on Saturday, will witness something unique: the ...

A Bahraini man, who shot to fame after being captured by a photographer performing Tawaf around a flooded Kaaba has died, aged 86. In one of the rare pictures of 1941 flood that submerged the Makkah’s ...

It is Islam’s holiest shrine – and for a few moments on Friday, it will also be the easiest to find. Astronomers say the sun will pass directly over the top of the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Saudi ...