The indictment alleges that a 2006 speech by the leader of the militant group, Hezbollah, motivated Matar to attack Rushdie over his novel "The Satanic Verses." which some Muslims believe is ...

Rushdie had worried for his safety since his 1989 novel “The Satanic Verses ... His other works include the novels “Shame” and “Victory City,” which he completed shortly before ...

Mr. Rushdie’s memoir about the attack and its aftermath, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” was a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction last year. The trial began ...

Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the fatwa in 1989 after publication of the novel “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims consider blasphemous. Rushdie spent years in hiding.