Hundreds have died in chaotic scenes at the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, as temperatures in the Saudi Arabian desert soared above 50C. More than 550 people have now been confirmed dead after this year’s ...

A husband and wife from Bowie, Maryland, had always dreamed of making the Hajj to Mecca. Their family says they were among more than 1,000 people who died on the annual five-day pilgrimage to Saudi ...

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 ...

Democratic Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks confirmed a Maryland couple are among the more than 1,300 people who have died in extreme temperatures during the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The annual Muslim pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mecca that wrapped up last week became a death march for over 1,300 Hajj participants who died in temperatures that climbed above 124 degrees. Saudi ...

CAIRO — 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 ...

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 ...

BOWIE, Md. - FOX 5 learned over the weekend, a Bowie, Maryland couple who left earlier this month to embark on an Islamic pilgrimage died due to the extreme heat, according to the couple’s daughter.

Yaqut Cholil Qoumas and an associate are under investigation for the management of additional quotas granted to Indonesia for ...