The Islamic holy city of Mecca has flooded along with other Saudi Arabian cities after heavy rainfall earlier this week, as seen in videos on social media.
Harar's other moniker is the African Mecca, and locals here claim that the area's inhabitants accepted Islam eight years before people in the holy Muslim city of Medina in the Arabian peninsula.
Major portions of the Arabian Peninsula are already exceeding 2°C ... 1,301 people on the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca died due to extreme heat with temperatures exceeding 50 °C (122 °F).
A strong flood hit Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, January 7. The city of Mecca has already been submerged, and streams of water are ...
with both the vast majority of land and wealth of the Arabian Peninsula falling within its borders. Millions of devout Muslims from around the world participate in a pilgrimage to Mecca each year ...
By Islam Salah Imagine a world without highways, planes, or ships—where goods and ideas traveled on the backs of camels along ...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest sovereign state in the Middle East and makes up the majority of the Arabian Peninsula ... to Islam's holiest cities, Mecca and Medina.