The US State Department said multiple US citizens died during the Hajj pilgrimage but did not provide a number. “We can ...

A Bowie couple with lifelong dreams to travel to Mecca for Hajj died in Saudi Arabia during this month’s pilgrimage. Alieu Wurie, 71, and Isatu Wurie, 65, were longtime Bowie residents ...

Wednesday marked the beginning of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that brings more than a million observant Muslims to Saudi Arabia every year. Authorities have ratcheted up heat ...

This year about 1.8 million pilgrims arrived in the holy city of Mecca and walked long distances amid a deadly heatwave with temperatures ... on the Plain of Arafat (AP) Hajj, which is an ...

Saudi Arabia has issued safety warnings to Hajj pilgrims amid extreme heat forecasts. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has ...

Muslim worshippers prayed on Mount Arafat during the high point of the hajj pilgrimage Thursday, as authorities urged them to ...

So far, 25 male and four female pilgrims from Bangladesh have died during Hajj this year. Of them, 19 died in Makkah, nine in Madinah, and one on Mount Arafat. In the Saudi public hospitals, 19 others ...

While last summer, Hajj coincided with a vicious heatwave, and more than 1,000 pilgrims died as a result of searing temperatures of up to 125 degrees F. The Saudi authorities are said to be hoping ...

(CNN) — The official death toll from this year’s Hajj pilgrimage has soared to almost 500 and the true toll could be more than double that as reports emerged that as many as 600 Egyptian ...