RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi authorities have raised the death toll in a construction crane collapse at Mecca's Grand Mosque to 107. The country's civil defense authority tweeted early Saturday that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a Friday sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Saleh bin Abdullah bin Humaid — one of the nine imams of ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia A towering construction crane collapsed on Friday during a violent rainstorm in Saudi Arabia s city of Mecca, Islam s holiest site, crashing into the Grand Mosque and killing at ...

In “Open Mecca, Crown Prince Mohammed” (Houses of Worship, Aug. 5), Daniel Pipes mentions only “three cases of non-Muslims surreptitiously” entering Mecca. There was a fourth case, but it was with the ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Billboards line the Umm Al Qura highway leading to the Grand Mosque in Mecca, displaying manicured public spaces, glass-fronted stores and sleek towers. It’s part of a $26 ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — High winds were to blame for the toppling of a massive crane that smashed into Mecca’s Grand Mosque and killed at least 107 people ahead of the start of the annual hajj ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi security forces on Friday foiled a suicide attack on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, cornering the would-be attacker in an apartment, where he blew himself ...

Muslim pilgrims have wrapped up the Hajj, or pilgrimage, in the deadly summer heat on Tuesday with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the Kaaba, ...

Dubai: The Grand Mosque in Mecca has recorded an unprecedented influx of worshippers and visitors during the first 10 days of Ramadan, with more than 25 million people gathering for prayers, according ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims used the early morning hours Monday to perform the second day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, hoping to escape the noontime summer heat that caused ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi security forces on Friday foiled a suicide attack on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, cornering the would-be attacker in an apartment, where he blew himself ...