The governor of Saudi Arabia's Makkah region on Wednesday urged Muslim religious leaders to fight sectarianism, an indirect criticism of Shia Iran.
Saudi Arabia has begun issuing Haj pilgrims with identification bracelets one year after a stampede killed around 2,300 people. The bracelets are a reassurance to some pilgrims.
Close to 1.5mn Muslims from around the world descended on Thursday on Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj pilgrimage, undeterred by last year's stampede disaster but with Iranians absent.
An Ethiopian worker was killed and 18 Egyptians were injured when the roof of a building under construction collapsed in Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported on Friday.
A trial is underway for 14 people over a deadly crane incident in Saudi Arabia that killed more than 100 people at Islam's holiest site, local media reported on Thursday.
A fire ripped through an uninhabited hotel in the Saudi holy city of Makkah on Sunday without causing casualties, the civil defence spokesman said.
Suspects including engineers and two government employees will face trial in Saudi Arabia over the deaths of 107 people when a crane toppled over at Makkah's Grand Mosque last year, a local newspaper reported.
Fifty young men have been arrested in Saudi Arabia for haircuts, necklaces and other adornments considered un-Islamic. The suspects were detained during a Ramadan crackdown in the western Saudi city of Makkah.
A $16.5 billion mass transit project planned for Saudi Arabia's holy city of Makkah has been delayed so that its financing can be restructured, the head of the implementing body said ...
About 7mn Umrah pilgrims are expected in Makkah and Madinah before and during the holy month of Ramadan this year.
Saudi Binladin Group, which has laid off tens of thousands of employees because of financial difficulties, said on Monday it has begun paying delayed wages to its remaining staff.
A Saudi police officer has been shot dead in the Makkah region, the interior ministry said on Friday, after four suspected jihadists died during a raid in the same area.
