Saudi Arabia says it will resume Umrah pilgrimage for vaccinated foreigners.

Mask-clad Muslim pilgrims throw pebbles as they "stone the devil" in the last major ritual of a scaled-back hajj due to coronavirus limits for a second year running.

In this edition, Spotlight interviews Sam Mahdi Torabi director of Risalat Strategic Studies Institute from Tehran and Kevin Barrett author and Middle East expert from Madison.

Hajj pilgrims streamed out of the holy city of Mecca and into the Mina valley on Sunday, launching the rituals of the great pilgrimage which Saudi Arabia is holding in a scaled-down form for a second year.

Saudi political opponents call for mass participation in the Arafah Day protests, rejecting the injustice of the Al Saud regime.

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says a jihad-like struggle will end US interference in the affairs of the Islamic nations.

Muslim worshipers begin arriving at Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat, during the second scaled-down Hajj of the coronavirus era.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud reshuffles his cabinet by replacing the minister of the Hajj and Umrah, the head of the Supreme Administrative Court and the chairman of the General Aviation Authority.

Muslims pilgrims in the Mecca took part in the final Tawaf on Hajj on Sunday.