In recent months, senior U.S. and Pakistani officials have stepped up efforts to tame the area along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, used by the Taliban as a base to fire rockets and smuggle weapons. (Nikki Kahn/Post)
Leading opposition candidate in disputed election releases documents detailing a campaign of alleged fraud by supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that assured his reelection.
Launch of seven missiles -- Pyongyang's largest one-day barrage of test missiles in three years -- might be intended to discourage deployment of new missile defenses against communist state, according to some experts.