BAGHDAD — Khaleel Abbas Ali has made Islam’s holiest pilgrimage three times, and the past week found him at the board of religious affairs here to see if he’d won a lottery for his fourth hajj. The ...

Earlier this month, millions of Muslims made their way to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to participate in the Islamic pilgrimage known as hajj. It’s one of the largest annual gatherings, and there, Muslims who ...

Hajj is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, and more than 2 million Muslims make the pilgrimage to Mecca each year, including from Connecticut. Khalid and Yasmin Kapadwala made the trek, leaving their ...

June 19 (UPI) --At least 550 people have died during pilgrimages to the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which started on Friday, according to reports. Most of the deaths have been blamed on ...

COLUMBIA — This week, Syed and Aziza Rashid are doing something they have wanted to do their entire lives. They packed their young children off to the grandparents, and on Monday, set out for Mecca.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca Seyahat: A Journey to Mecca is a unique free-to-play 2D RPG which is designed as an educational tool to help players and ...

Abu Dhabi (Reuters Life!) - The modern-day Haj experience writ large in IMAX film format is twinned with the ancient story of the Muslim world's best known ancient traveler in a new film which ...

One woman can parse the finer points of Islamic terminology. Another, posing for a photo and remembering her publicist, wonders aloud, "Wait, should I be wearing a headscarf? It'll look more pious." ...

Put simply, this is just another striving, improbable, poetic American Dream story: How a family, venerating work and education, traveled from the notorious South Central LA of“Boyz In The Hood” to ...

Pilgrims circle the Kaaba at the Masjidil Haram, Islam's holiest site, during the Tawaf Al-Qudum (Tawaf of Arrival) on the first day of Hajj 2020, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Reports said that at least ...