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 ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — For Zainab Abdu, the holiest sites in Islam were the backdrop for her weekends growing up. Raised in Mecca, Abdu remembers roller-skating with friends near the Grand Mosque ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia, July 1 (Reuters) - Thousands of pilgrims started arriving in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Friday, among some one million Muslims expected to attend the 2022 haj ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — For Zainab Abdu, the holiest sites in Islam were the backdrop for her weekends growing up. Raised in Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, Abdu remembers roller skating with friends near the ...

Saudi Arabia’s King has issued a decree halting all Saudi Binladin Group construction projects in the kingdom until a full investigation of last week’s deadly crane collapse at the Grand Mosque in ...

Muslims worshippers gathered for Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Friday (March 20), ...

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

The head of Saudi Arabia’s civil defense directorate says high winds caused a massive crane to topple over and smash into Mecca’s Grand Mosque, killing at least 107 people ahead of the start of the ...