The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. April 16, 2018 Afghanistan: 26 Government Officers Killed in String of Attacks --------------------------------------------------------------- In Afghanistan, a string of attacks over the weekend against government outposts killed at least 26 government security officers. The government blamed the Taliban for the attacks. Separately, at least two schools were set ablaze, including a girls' high school in Logar province near the capital Kabul. .