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Last updated: 27 Jul 2026, 12:22 PM (Saudi time)
A comprehensive step-by-step guide to performing Tawaf at Hajj 2026: starting at the Black Stone, the seven circuits, Idtiba and Raml rules, the Hateem, Yemeni Corner, prayer after Tawaf, the Multazam, and practical crowd tips.
A complete step-by-step guide to Ihram for Hajj 2026: clothing rules for men and women, how to enter the sacred state, the full list of prohibitions, penalties for violations, and practical preparation tips.
Saudi Tourism Minister inspects Hajj 2026 facilities as 566,000 new beds are added to Makkah through a new temporary licensing system. New hospitality rules require all providers to obtain official approval.
A comprehensive accessibility guide for elderly and disabled pilgrims performing Hajj 2026: free wheelchairs, electric carts, proxy Hajj rulings, over-65 requirements, and practical tips for limited mobility.
A guide to Zamzam water for Hajj 2026: its 4,000-year history from Hajar's desperate search, where to find it in the Haram, how to take it home (5L bottle per pilgrim), the Sunnah of drinking it, and its geological uniqueness.
Over 50,000 international pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for Hajj 2026 from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia, with the arrival phase continuing through May 21 across 12,000+ flights.
Country’s leadership vows to never surrender as memorial on grand scale aims to relay message of resistance to worldIn the small hours of Friday the police roadblocks, stalls, posters and army vans were starting to appear across Tehran, as millions of Iranians prepared to attend the long-delayed s...
Biman completes 2026 Hajj flight operations Banglanews24
Nine Buddhist monks were killed after a truck driven by an 11-year-old boy struck a pilgrimage procession in Thailand.
Biman wraps up 2026 post-Hajj operations Somoy News
Biman wraps up 2026 post-Hajj operations successfully Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)
Damage recorded in 30 locations across in the city from overnight attacks, with ‘most of them ordinary residential buildings’in DublinVolodymyr Zelenskyy has said he hopes not to wait too long for the results of an Irish government investigation into alumina exports to Russia thought to be feedi...