NATO Resolute Support Commander Calls for More Troops in Afghanistan

NATO Resolute Support Commander Calls for More Troops in Afghanistan: 

The request for more troops, which will be made at a NATO summit in May, is backed by US Defense Secretary James Mattis, according to the news outlet.
Nicholson said the key aim of 12,000 troops he leads in Afghanistan was to defeat the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group (banned in Russia, the United States and many other countries), adding that the Afghan government was controlling only about 75 percent ofthe country's territory.