A few thousand more troops for the train, advise, and assist mission in Afghanistan would help to break what is now a stalemate with the Taliban, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and other adversaries there, the commander of NATO's Resolute Support mission and of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan said in February while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee. U.S. and NATO troops perform two complementary missions in Afghanistan said Army Gen. John Nicholson Jr., the U.S. counterterrorism mission, called Operation Freedoms Sentinel, and the NATO train, advise and assist mission, called Operation Resolute Support. While the general said he has adequate resourcing in his counterter-rorism mission, the train, advise and assist mission has a shortfall of a few thousand troops, noting that the extra troops could come from the United States and its allies, many of whom are fighting in Afghanistan.
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