MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Following the footsteps of prophets beneath a burning sun, more than 1.83 million Muslims from around the world congregated Saturday at a sacred hill in Saudi Arabia ...

ARAFAT, Saudi ArabiaARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — They came in the dark of night, in the thousands, to clamber up the rocky hill called Mount Arafat. The mound southeast of Mecca is little known outside ...

ABOUT 1.7 million pilgrims for this year’s Hajj have begun to converge on Mount Arafat to mark the most important ritual of the holy pilgrimage. It is an annual pilgrimage that re-enacts the actions ...

MAKKAH — About two million pilgrims from all corners of the globe are on Friday set to converge on Mount Arafat, about 15 km east of Makkah, at the climax of this year’s annual pilgrimage of Haj.

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