The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to be on the lookout for potentially deadly meningococcal disease linked to travel to Saudi Arabia. Since April, there have been 12 ...

NAIROBI: At least 4,500 Kenyans are set to travel to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the annual religious pilgrimage (hajj), the highest number in recent history. The first batch of pilgrims jetted off from ...

This month, Muslims from around the world, including hundreds of families from Virginia, will travel to the holy city of Mecca (Makkah, in Arabic) to perform the annual pilgrimage. The pilgrimage, or ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In sweltering temperatures, Muslim pilgrims in the Saudi city of Mecca converged on a vast desert tent camp Friday, officially starting the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Earlier, ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Once a year, Muslim pilgrims flowing into Saudi Arabia unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, one of the pillars of Islam. As they ...

Saudi Embassy in Nairobi Charge D’Affaires Abdullah Al Qahtani ( left) gives Hajj ceremonial dressing to Sheikh Ahmad Uthman at the Embassy on Wednesday ahead of their flight to Mecca PHOTO: ALLY ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (7News) — One Silver Spring, Md., woman told 7News she used the same travel company as the Bowie, Md., couple who died in Mecca while taking part in the Hajj earlier this month, and ...

(RNS) — For two years as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on, Sumaira Malik and her husband, Nauman Chaudary, left their deposit with Dar El Salam Travel for their planned hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca, ...

CAIRO, Egypt — More than 1,300 people died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, Saudi ...

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 originally from ...

Saudi Arabia finally reopened the holy city of Mecca to international travelers after a two-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. But a new set of travel restrictions and operating procedures ...