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In her new book, Karen Elliott House chronicles Mohammed bin Salman's rise and his vision of economic transformation.
Steve Abdukareem Munyakho, a Kenyan national who had been on death row in Saudi Arabia, was officially released, July 22.
Islam's annual hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia will return to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 after restrictions saw the annual religious commemoration curtailed over concerns about the coronavirus, ...
Saudi Arabia has not commented on the death toll amid the heat during the pilgrimage, required of every able Muslim once in their life, nor offered any causes for those who died.
BEIRUT — Every year, Saudi Arabia welcomes millions of Muslims from around the world for the hajj pilgrimage, a sacred rite that pumps cash into the economy and enhances the prestige of the monarch.
Some 2 million Muslim pilgrims officially began the annual Hajj pilgrimage on Monday, making their way out of Mecca after circling Islam’s holiest site, the Kaaba, and converging on a vast tent ...
Saudi Arabia may cancel the highly anticipated Muslim holy pilgrimage to Mecca for the first time in the kingdom's recent history due to a spike in new cases of coronavirus.
Korir Sing’oei has announced that a Kenyan who was facing execution in Saudi Arabia, Stephen Munyakho, has been released.
Stephen Abdukareem Munyakho, the Kenyan man on death row in Saudi Arabia, has been released after over 10 years in prison.
Saudi Arabia said it was curtailing this year’s hajj pilgrimage to only a small number of people already in the kingdom, rather than the millions who usually flock to Islam’s holiest sites ...
In 2021, some 60,000 residents of Saudi Arabia attended. Last year saw 1 million faithful perform the pilgrimage.. Speaking on Monday night at a conference about the hajj in the Red Sea port city ...
Saudi Arabia has not commented on the death toll amid the heat during the pilgrimage, required of every able Muslim once in their life, nor offered any causes for those who died.