Saudi Arabia's Hajj overhaul includes policy updates and high-tech safety measures following last year's heat deaths.

Millions of Muslims have gathered in Mecca, marking the beginning of the five-day Hajj pilgrimage—the world's largest annual ...

The hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia has in recent decades been plagued by deadly disasters, from stampedes to terror attacks.

Starting at dawn, the more than 1.6 million Muslims taking part in the pilgrimage will throw seven stones at each of three ...

Over 1.6 million pilgrims began the final major ritual of the annual Hajj pilgrimage on Friday, participating in the symbolic ...

A stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia has left at least 244 people dead, the largest number killed at the event since 1997. The Hajj minister, Iyad Madani, said a comparable number of ...

Pilgrims were performing the last major ritual of the Hajj - the stoning of the devil - on Friday, as Muslims around the ...

The kingdom has installed hundreds of coolers and cracked down on unregistered Muslim pilgrims, after 1,300 people died last ...

The picture shows victims of a stampede outside Mecca in 2015, the worst disaster in hajj history. The photo, which was shared on Facebook on June 22, shows bodies covered in white fabric lying on ...

Huge crowds of pilgrims "stoned the devil" in the last major ritual of the hajj pilgrimage on Friday, as Muslims around the ...

Working day and night in front of maps, screens and seemingly endless data, Saudi officials have harnessed artificial ...

More than a million pilgrims joined Islam's most important rite under a beating sun on Wednesday, as the hajj kicked off with ...