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 authorities announced ...

An Australian is among the hundreds of Muslim pilgrims who have died in Saudi Arabia while completing an annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Each year hundreds of people die while undertaking the pilgrimage, ...

As pilgrims begin to depart from various corners of the world for their Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has unveiled penalties for individuals who violate the stringent measures laid ...

With temperatures soaring to 50C in Saudi Arabia, there are reports that some 1,000 people have died while undertaking the annual journey to Mecca. Muslim pilgrims were wrapping up the Hajj pilgrimage ...

Omar*, an Egyptian in his 40s, considers himself a lucky survivor of Hajj. More than a thousand people, most of them Egyptians, have died of extreme heat during the annual pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia ...

The Hajj is a journey of sacrifice that able Muslims are required to take once in their life. But as temperatures around Mecca this past week soared above 115 degrees, people collapsed, hundreds died ...

Saudi Arabia is resuming issuing Umrah visas from today, 10 June, a day after the conclusion of the Hajj 2025. Over 1.6 million Muslims from more than 150 nations prayed in Mecca during the annual ...

Each year hundreds of people die while undertaking the pilgrimage, with some counts placing mortality rates as high as 900. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed the death in a ...