Mecca and several other parts of Saudi Arabia have been placed on alert after the kingdom's National Early Warning Platform sent warning messages about potential danger, the Saudi Civil Defense said.

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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has branded Yemen’s armed Houthi movement a “terrorist militia” and accused the Iran-allied group of repeatedly targeting the holy city of Mecca. The ...

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Saudi Arabia said its air defenses intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone as fighting reaches the holy city for the first time in the ongoing conflict. The Iran-backed militia group rejected the ...

Several areas on Saudi Arabia's western coast, including the holy city of Mecca and the Jeddah and Taif governorates, were briefly put on alert after Yemen's Houthis allegedly targeted the holy city, ...

Saudi Arabia’s civil defence on Tuesday issued brief alerts warning of potential danger in Mecca, Jeddah and Taif amid an escalation in attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels from Yemen. The alert for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO - A general view of the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca, prior to the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (is ...

As Houthi forces seized Mokha and Perim Island last week, Pakistan's army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir spent the moment on the phone with Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi.Munir seems in no ...

Much has been made of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement (MJDA) – a collective security agreement signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye in early August – in news and analysis recently. Some ...

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