Novelist Salman Rushdie on Thursday testified at the federal trial of the man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural center in 2022. Hadi Matar, a 28-year-old Lebanese-American, was ...

The man who rushed a stage to attack author Salman Rushdie will face federal terrorism charges in a trial that began Wednesday in New York.

Hadi Matar, already serving 25 years for attempted murder, denies federal charges that could bring a life sentence ...

Salman Rushdie has testified for the second time about being stabbed nearly to death four years ago in a western New York ...

The man who stabbed and partially blinded author Salman Rushdie at a speaking engagement in 2022 was found guilty of federal terrorism charges for the attack. A U.S. District Court jury in Buffalo, ...

Investigators said Matar surrounded himself with Hezbollah symbols before the attack, travelled to the Chautauqua Institution under a false name, carried a fake driver's licence, and visited a Hezboll ...

Hadi Matar, 28, was convicted of attempting to help Hezbollah by attacking the British-Indian author.

It was the second time the author described the incident in court, after giving evidence against his attacker during a 2025 trial.

Hadi Matar faces life in prison after a federal jury convicted him of terrorism charges related to his knife attack on Salman Rushdie in 2022.

Defendant in Salman Rushdie stabbing declines to testify in terrorism trial - The man on trial in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie has chosen not to testify or call any witnesses in the federal terroris ...

In this courtroom sketch, Salman Rushdie, left, testifies in federal court during the terrorism trial for Hadi Matar, Rushdie's alleged attacker, shown second from bottom left, Thursday, July 23, 2026 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Four years after being stabbed on an amphitheater stage, Salman Rushdie sat across a courtroom from his convicted attacker Thursday and told jurors for a second time about the ...