Up to 231 children had been killed and 529 children were wounded as a result of the fighting suicide attacks by the Taliban in the first half of the current year.
Of the 893,700 claims submitted in 2012, around 21,300 were for "unaccompanied or separated" children, most from Afghanistan and Somalia, according to UNHCR.
Afghanistan’s copper, cobalt, iron, barite, sulfur, lead, silver, zinc, niobium, and 1.4 million metric tons of rare earth elements (REEs) - may be a silver lining.
The U.S. Defense Department is moving forward on spending nearly $772 million for aircraft the Afghan National Army currently cannot operate or maintain.
The dead comprised 778 Muslim civilians, 88 police, 55 soldiers and 68 insurgents, according to the figures compiled by the health, interior and defence ministries.
Sins are removed in Ramadan. Therefore, the Muslims should prepare for such holy month. God said "Fasting belongs to me and I am the reward of the fasting."
Around four million Muslims live in Germany; nearly half are German citizens. The Sehitlik mosque in Berlin is one of the largest mosques offering room for 1.500 worshippers.
It quoted an unnamed official involved in the North's rocket programme as saying Pyongyang would develop a bigger rocket than the one launched last week, the Unha-3.
The ship was traveling from England to New York, carrying everyone from plutocrats to penniless emigrants, when it struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912. It sank on April 15, with the loss of more than 1,500 of the 2,208 passengers and crew.