President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina send messages to King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia expressing deep sorrow and shock at the loss of lives in a stampede at Mina during Hajj.

717 people taking part in the Hajj pilgrimage are killed in a stampede near the Islamic holy city of Mecca, officials in Saudi Arabia say.

A suicide bomber strikes a mosque in Yemen's rebel-held capital in an attack targeting Shiites killing at least 25 people and wounded dozens during Eid prayers.

Two million Muslims from around the world arrived in the Mina valley outside the holy city of Makkah.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from across the globe begin the annual hajj pilgrimage in one of the largest annual gatherings of people in the world.

Two Bangladeshis were killed and several others injured in a mortar attack launched from Yemen on a hospital in Saudi Arabia early today.

A Sylhet court fixes September 22 for starting charge framing hearing in the 13-year-old boy Rajon killing case.

Saudi Hajj Minister Bandar Hajjar announces that there will be no quota system on any country for sending pilgrims from next year.

Jumaa Ibrahim and his wife Hasnaa Karam, a Syrian couple in their early 60s, arrived in Mecca on Friday, and headed straight to Islam's holiest site, the cube-shaped Kaaba.

A Bangladeshi has been identified among 107 victims, who died in Mecca crane collapse on Friday.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman says the results of an investigation into why a crane collapsed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, killing at least 107 people, will be made public.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directs Bangladesh mission in Riyadh to take immediate steps to provide all necessary assistance to the Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims injured in Mecca crane collapse.

This year's hajj pilgrimage will go ahead despite a crane collapse which killed more than 100 people at the Grand Mosque of Mecca, a Saudi official tells AFP.

A massive construction crane crashes into Mecca's Grand Mosque in stormy weather Friday, killing 87 people and injuring 184, Saudi authorities say, less than a fortnight before the hajj pilgrimage starts.

If it wasn't for the grey skies and the chilly drizzle, I would have thought I'm somewhere in the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia says it is happy with President Obama's assurances that the recent nuclear deal with Iran will not imperil the Gulf states.

Twenty-two members of the United Arab Emirates' military were killed while taking part in Saudi-led operations in Yemen against Shiite rebels.

Saudi Arabia’s recruitment offices have decided to stop hiring Bangladeshi workers claiming that a supply crunch has raised costs, reports an Arab English daily, Arab News.

A fire at a residential complex in Saudi Arabia kills six people and injures at least 200 others, Saudi officials say.

The Saudi government has issued 80 thousand hajj visas until now, the according to the country’s envoy here.