File combination of photos created on March 07, 2020, shows a small crowd of worshipers around the sacred Kaaba in Mecca�s Grand Mosque on March 7, 2020, and a large crowd during the pilgrimage, on August 13, 2019...

In this file photo taken on April 24, 2020, sanitation workers disinfect the area around the Kaaba in Mecca...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has issued a message on the occasion of the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage season calling for an end to domestic wars in Islamic countries...

Qatar says Saudi Arabia is politicizing the annual Hajj pilgrimage as a diplomatic row rages on in the Persian Gulf region...