Iranian hajj pilgrims carried out a ritual protest without incident on Thursday as millions of Muslims amassed for the peak of the world's ...
Muslim pilgrims holding white umbrellas against the blazing sun clambered up a rocky desert hill for prayers Thursday during the annual hajj, following ...
A day-long downpour fouled the start of the annual hajj on Wednesday, soaking thousands of people as they walked from Mecca to Mina, snarling traffic and stranding buses for hours. Some of the 2.5 million Muslims on the world's largest annual pilgrimage ...
The world's largest annual religious pilgrimage began on Wednesday overshadowed by the swine flu pandemic as 2.5 million Muslims amassed at the holy city of Mecca for the hajj. A rare rainstorm and possible banned protests by Iranian pilgrims also threatened to ...
A pilgrim attending the hajj speaks on a mobile phone amidst heavy rains in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. The heaviest rainstorms to hit Islam's annual hajj in years soaked pilgrims and flooded the road into Mecca, snarling traffic as ...
Rare rainstorms snarl Islam's annual hajj, soaking millions of pilgrims Rare, heavy rainstorms soaked pilgrims and flooded the road into Mecca, snarling Islam's annual hajj as millions of Muslims headed for the holy sites. The downpours add an extra hazard on top ...
An estimated 2.5 million Muslims have converged on Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage, as workers toil round the clock to complete construction projects designed to avoid deadly stampedes. This year's hajj is also taking place amid fears of the spread of ...
An estimated 2.5 million Muslims have converged on Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage, as workers toil round the clock to complete construction projects designed to avoid deadly stampedes. All of this year's pilgrims were due in the holy city by the ...
Two Sunni religious leaders were killed in and around the Iraqi capital on Tuesday by magnetic bombs attached to their cars, security officials said. In one attack, the imam of the Arkam ibn Arkam mosque in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Dora ...
Former Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Kalyan Singh talks to media after the tabling of Liberhan report, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2009. A government investigation released Tuesday reportedly implicated dozens of Hindu nationalist politicians, including a former prime minister ...
An inquiry into the demolition of a mosque that led to bloody Hindu-Muslim riots in India will accuse senior Hindu nationalist politicians of orchestrating the destruction, a report said Monday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party stalled business in parliament over claims ...
Saudi Arabia's interior minister said Sunday the kingdom hopes not to have to "resort to force" to maintain security for the hajj, in a reference to worries Iranian pilgrims may demonstrate. "We hope we will not be obliged to resort to force," ...
