Saudi Arabia has changed its decadeslong rule that mandated single women be accompanied by a male relative when performing an Islamic pilgrimage, facilitating the participation of thousands of single ...

The final month in the Islamic calendar, Dhul Hijjah, started May 28, and many Muslims are observing the first 10 days as others prepare for the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca. After the first nine days of ...

In the grand historical narrative of the Islamic world, two cities have stood out as dominant forces: Baghdad, the intellectual, cultural, and scientific hub of the Islamic Golden Age, and Saudi ...

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, has said the militant groups Islamic State and al Qaeda were “enemy number one of Islam” and ...

RIYADH, Nov 8 (KUNA): The sixth edition of the Islamic Solidarity Games officially got underway in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, ...

According to the Heritage Commission of Saudi Arabia, a groundbreaking archeological discovery was recently made in the city ...

Pakistan is expected to win its first gold medal in the ongoing Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A liquor store has opened in Saudi Arabia for the first time in over 70 years, a diplomat reported Wednesday, a further socially liberalizing step in the once-ultraconservative ...