Recent News Headlines : Mecca - Saudi Arabia

MOVIE THEATERS TO BE ALLOWED AFTER DECADES OF BAN


Saudi Arabia on Monday said it would lift the kingdom's decades-long ban on movie theaters, part of reforms by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman... READ MORE

11th December, 2017 1123

CHRONICLER OF ISLAMIC STATE 'KILLING MACHINE' GOES PUBLIC


Mosul Eye lit a cigarette, heedless of a handful of other people picnicking nearby... READ MORE

10th December, 2017 0

@MOSULEYE MADE HIMSELF A PROMISE: TRUST NO-ONE, DOCUMENT EVERYTHING


For years there was a historian documenting Islamic State's rule over Mosul. Now he reveals his identity... READ MORE

8th December, 2017 1084

WHY IS THERE UPROAR OVER TRUMP'S JERUSALEM DECLARATION?


Israel captured East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in a move not recognized internationally... READ MORE

6th December, 2017 2064

DONALD TRUMP'S JERUSALEM MOVE RINGS ALARM BELLS IN ARAB WORLD


Palestinians hold poster of the U.S. President Donald Trump during a protest in Bethlehem, West Bank, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2017... READ MORE

6th December, 2017 267

A GUIDE TO THE DISPUTE OVER JERUSALEM AND ISRAEL'S CAPITAL


In 1967, Israel captured east Jerusalem in the Six-Day War and formally annexed those portions of the city to form one municipality under Israeli law... READ MORE

6th December, 2017 199

PAKISTAN CALLS ARMY IN AS 'BLASPHEMY' CLASHES RAGE


Pakistan's government has called on the army to deploy, after police were unable to break up a sit-in by religious hardliners. Islamist party activists on... READ MORE

26th November, 2017 55

THE FORGOTTEN MUSLIM HEROES WHO FOUGHT FOR BRITAIN IN THE TRENCHES


The stories of the 2.5 million Muslims who travelled to Europe to fight for the allies during the first world war are finally being told... READ MORE

11th November, 2017 35065

NO-ONE IS IMMUNE FROM CRACKDOWN, SAYS SAUDI FOREIGN MINISTER


The 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman wants to modernize the way of doing business in Saudi Arabia... READ MORE

10th November, 2017 116

SAUDI-LED COALITION FIGHTING IN YEMEN HINTS AT ACT OF WAR BY IRAN


He also pointed to Saudi Arabia's deals with Washington and London for arms being used in Yemen... READ MORE

6th November, 2017 4035

SAUDI PRINCE ASSERTING POWER BRINGS CLERICS TO HEEL


Taming the powerful religious establishment may bring historic change to Saudi Arabia, where the royal family has always governed in consensus with clerics... READ MORE

5th November, 2017 8753

TOP SAUDI ARABIA OFFICIAL OUSTED, PRINCES REPORTEDLY ARRESTED


Saudi Arabias King Salman has removed a prominent prince who headed the National Guard and replaced the economy minister... READ MORE

5th November, 2017 2771

MISSILE FIRED FROM YEMEN AIMED TO HIT SAUDI AIRPORT


Saudi Arabia's air defence forces intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen over the capital Riyadh on Saturday, state news agencies reported... READ MORE

5th November, 2017 213

ANALYSIS | SAUDI ARABIA WANTS TO RETURN TO 'MODERATE ISLAM.' SKEPTICS SAY IT'S A MARKETING PLOY.


Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sits during an allegiance pledging ceremony in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on June 21... READ MORE

25th October, 2017 1090

SAUDI ARABIA NEXT SUMMER TO BECOME LAST NATION TO LET WOMEN DRIVE FOR FIRST TIME


Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced that women will be allowed to drive for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom next summer, fulfilling a key de... READ MORE

27th September, 2017 12

MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE MARK ISLAMIC NEW YEAR, 1439 HIJRI


According to the Islamic calendar used across most of the Arab world, Muslims have entered the year 1439 Hijri... READ MORE

21st September, 2017 228

ROYAL SHEIKH-UP: MEET QATAR'S SAUDI-BACKED EMIR-IN-WAITING


Abdullah Bin Ali hails from a prominent branch of the Qatari royal family... READ MORE

18th September, 2017 73

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REPORTED SAUDI BLOCKING OF QATARI PILGRIM CONDEMNED


Saudi authorities have reportedly prevented a Qatari national from entering the Grand Mosque in Mecca, marking a sharp escalation in the Gulf diplomatic crisis... READ MORE

11th June, 2017 87349

AL-AQSA: PALESTINIANS KILLED AS JERUSALEM PROTESTS RAGE


Clashes continue to rage between Israeli forces and Palestinian demonstrators across occupied territories... READ MORE

21st July, 2017 66206

THIS IS HOW YOUR WORLD COULD END


I met University of New Hampshire paleoclimatologist Matthew Huber at a diner near his campus in Durham, New Hampshire... READ MORE

9th September, 2017 33229

MOSQUES ACROSS HOUSTON HAVE OPENED THEIR DFEELRS TO FLOOD VICTIMS, KEEPING THEM WARM, SAFE AND FED


Mosque members on Thursday night delivered meals to an estimated 500 people at the city's two emergency shelters... READ MORE

2nd September, 2017 20516

THE US JUST DROPPED ITS BIGGEST NON-NUCLEAR BOMB ON AFHGHANISTAN. THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW


The first time it was used operationally was in a US Air Force attack on Isis tunnels in Achin district, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, in April 2017... READ MORE

14th April, 2017 18549

WORLD REACTS TO ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN FALLOUT OVER AL-AQSA


In a statement posted on Facebook, the Foreign Ministry urged Israel to stop the violence and warned of escalating tensions at the al-Aqsa Mosque... READ MORE

22nd July, 2017 17814

SAUDI KING SALMAN INVITES QATAR PILGRIMS TO HAJJ


The rights group had demanded on Saturday that Saudi Arabia lift all land and air restrictions on Qatar-based pilgrims traveling to Mecca for the Hajj pilgrimage... READ MORE

17th August, 2017 15146

AHEAD OF HAJJ, SAUDI IMAM DECRIES INTER-MUSLIM CONFLICT


Saudi Arabia says Qatar is seeking to politicise the ritual for diplomatic gains... READ MORE

26th August, 2017 10831

HOW DO ISRAEL'S TECH FIRMS DO BUSINESS IN SAUDI ARABIA? VERY QUIETLY


In a statement issued in Israel, Elbit did not specify what Cramer had been doing in Saudi Arabia... READ MORE

2nd February, 2017 10433

HAJJ 2016: MORE THAN 1.5M MUSLIMS DESCEND ON MINA


On the first day of Hajj, Muslims gather at Mina, the scene of last years deadly stampede, which killed hundreds... READ MORE

10th September, 2016 8671

IRAN PILGRIMS TO JOIN THIS YEAR'S HAJJ


Iranian pilgrims will participate in this year's annual hajj, Saudi Arabia has said, after an absence last year during tensions between the regional rivals... READ MORE

17th March, 2017 8650

SAUDI ARABIA TO BUILD ENTERTAINMENT CITY NEAR RIYADH


Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud family considers itself the protectors of Islam's holiest sites, Mecca and Medina... READ MORE

9th April, 2017 8526

HOPES FADE FOR QATAR RESIDENTS TO PERFORM HAJJ


Qatari authorities subsequently accused Saudi Arabia of politicising Hajj and jeopardising the pilgrimage to Mecca by refusing to guarantee their pilgrims' safety... READ MORE

30th August, 2017 8361

SAUDI ARABIA 'SEEKS IRAQ'S HELP' TO MEND TIES WITH IRAN


The government of Saudi Arabia has sought the help of Iraq's prime minister to mend relations between Riyadh and Tehran, according to news reports... READ MORE

13th August, 2017 8174

AL-AQSA: ISRAEL BARS MUSLIM MEN UNDER 50 AMID PROTESTS


Israeli forces at various checkpoints had turned away buses carrying Muslim worshippers to Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank and elsewhere, several Palestinians told Al Jazeera... READ MORE

21st July, 2017 7681

TEENAGER ARRESTED FOR DANCING MACARENA ON SAUDI STREET


A 14-year-old boy who went viral on Twitter for dancing the Macarena in a busy Saudi Arabian street has been arrested by authorities... READ MORE

23rd August, 2017 7428

SAUDI ARABIA ARRESTS 46 OVER 2016 MEDINA MOSQUE ATTACK


Saudi Arabia has arrested 46 people suspected of belonging to a cell responsible for an attack in Medina outside of one of Islam's holiest sites last year... READ MORE

1st May, 2017 7199

TRUMP ADOPTS AGGRESSIVE POSTURE TOWARD IRAN AFTER MISSILE LAUNCH


Trump is due to hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a strident critic of the Iran nuclear deal, at the White House on February 15... READ MORE

2nd February, 2017 7084

SAUDI ARABIA REWRITES SUCCESSION AS KING REPLACES HEIR WITH SON, 31


King Salman's decrees on Wednesday removed Prince Mohammed both from his place in the line of succession and from his post as interior minister... READ MORE

21st June, 2017 6933

SAUDI KINGS SON PLOTTED EFFORT TO OUST HIS RIVAL


The prince has risen at the expense of his elder relatives, including Mohammed bin Nayef, 57... READ MORE

19th July, 2017 6777

ISIS DENIES ANY OF ITS FIGHTERS KILLED BY 'MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS' DROPPED BY US IN AFGHANISTAN


Nicknamed the mother of all bombs, the weapon was dropped from an MC-130 aircraft in the Achin district of Nangarhar, bordering Pakistan... READ MORE

16th April, 2017 6732

HUNDREDS OF TIBETANS DEFY CHINA, GATHER AT BIRTHPLACE OF BUDDHISM IN INDIA


Every Tibetan has a dream -- to meet the Dalai Lama, he said... READ MORE

13th January, 2017 6651

TRUMP'S NEW SECURITY ADVISOR DIFFERS FROM HIM ON RUSSIA, OTHER KEY ISSUES


One of the first tests of McMaster's influence will be the administration's review of U.S. policy in Syria, and more broadly against Islamic militancy... READ MORE

22nd February, 2017 5687

DISTURBING FOOTAGE SHOWS UNITED AIRLINES PASSENGER TELLING STAFF 'JUST KILL ME'


United Airlines video New footage shows bleeding passenger saying 'just kill me'... READ MORE

12th April, 2017 5594

TWO MISSILES FIRED FROM YEMEN LAND NEAR U.S. WARSHIP


Two missiles fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen landed near a U.S. warship in the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy said Monday... READ MORE

10th October, 2016 5422

HAJJ 2016: PILGRIMS GATHER AT MOUNT ARAFAT FOR KEY RITE


Last year's Hajj was marred by a stampede that killed 769 pilgrims - the highest Hajj death toll since a crush in 1990... READ MORE

12th September, 2016 5315

DONALD TRUMP'S POLICIES WORRY MUSLIMS AT HAJJ


Pilgrims say people are irritated, angry, and worried about US president's policies targeting Muslims... READ MORE

2nd September, 2017 5246

A BRIGHT DAY IN THE GLOOMY SKIES


Eighteen-year-old Mutaz Sa'eeda was also detained in the Wadi Joz neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem... READ MORE

30th July, 2017 5144

YEMEN'S HOUTHIS ACCUSED OF FIRING MISSILE AT MECCA


Yemen's Houthi rebels have been accused of targeting Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca by launching a long-range ballistic missile from 500km over the border... READ MORE

29th October, 2016 4932

SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN ACCUSE EACH OTHER OF NOT REALLY BEING MUSLIM


A day later, Saudi Arabia's top cleric, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, fired back, dismissing Khamenei's criticism as a feature of supposed Iranian hatred toward Sunnis... READ MORE

7th September, 2016 4882


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