MINA, Saudi ArabiaMINA, Saudi Arabia — Some Muslims beginning the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia on Sunday have a new way to avoid the crowds: an elevated light-rail that will whisk them ...

For centuries, the yearly Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca has been a massive logistical undertaking. Pilgrims have long piled into buses for overland journeys from India, onto ships for crossings of the Red ...

Driver Raneem Azzouz takes her seat at the helm of a high-speed train ferrying pilgrims to Mecca, less than five years after Saudi authorities gave women the right to ...

Two train burglary suspects were arrested after a brief search Thursday morning in the Mecca area. The incident started at around 10:30 a.m. when deputies were alerted to a vehicle in the area of ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The collision that killed two Union Pacific employees earlier this month east of Mecca happened when the train slammed into 92 empty railcars that had been stored on a side track ...

AS THE ever-increasing number of pilgrims for Hajj crossed three million last year, the Saudi Arabian authorities have embarked upon an ambitious project of 'Monorail' to facilitate smooth movement of ...

As the largest annual pilgrimage in the world, Hajj poses a steep and at-times dangerous logistical nightmare for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In 2008, for example, about 3 million pilgrims from ...

Law enforcement is investigating a fatal crash that occurred when a train hit a car on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Mecca Tuesday evening, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.

Driver Raneem Azzouz takes her seat at the helm of a high-speed train ferrying pilgrims to Mecca, less than five years after Saudi authorities gave women the right to drive road vehicles — Amer HILABI ...