The religious decree, like one issued against prize-winning author Salman Rushdie, calls on Muslims to bring down the ...

Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life. In 1989 Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared his novel, "The Satanic Verses," blasphemous, an insult to Islam, and called for ...

Salman Rushdie on Tuesday came face to face with the man accused of nearly killing him, describing the attack in gruesome detail in court — where he took off his glasses to reveal his blind ...

Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.

Sir Salman Rushdie says he has moved on from the knife attack which has seen his attacker jailed for attempted murder. Hadi ...

The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, is more than just a political leader; he is a deeply ...

From surreal fables to searing memoirs, Salman Rushdie has spent the last decade defying expectations. As he turns 78, we ...

The man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie, leaving him blind in one eye, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, the maximum term possible in the case. Friday’s sentencing hearing was the ...

Celebrate Salman Rushdie’s birthday with a look at why his novels still matter today. Bold, brilliant, and more relevant than ...

Hadi Matar was found guilty of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault after a two-week trial in February in Chautauqua County Court.

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the author didn't even try to fight back, a prosecutor said Monday during ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie has a collection of novellas and short stories coming out this fall, his first published fiction since being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized in 2022. Random ...