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

Iran's top Shiite cleric has issued a 'fatwa' or religious decree against US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime ...

Iranian Shiite leader Grand Ayatollah Shirazi issues fatwa condemning Trump and Netanyahu as "enemies of God," calling on ...

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 ...

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

The U.S. strike against Iran on Saturday night has ignited fears that Iran may choose to orchestrate attacks against ...

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

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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.

Author Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is "pleased" the man who tried to kill him in a knife attack in 2022 has received the maximum possible prison sentence. Hadi Matar, 27, was jailed for 25 years ...

Salman Rushdie has a collection of novellas and short stories coming out this fall. It’s his first published fiction since being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized in 2022.

One Wednesday night in November 2014, New York’s prestigious Columbia University played host to Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider.