MATTIS OVERSEAS: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is in Denmark today, first stop on a week-long trip that will take him to Lithuania and the United Kingdom. In Copenhagen, Mattis attending a ministerial of senior leaders from 15 countries that are key contributors to the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

On his flight over to Denmark yesterday, Mattis told reporters traveling with him that the U.S. was reviewing the latest plan from Moscow to establish safe zones in Syria as a possible path to peace. “All wars eventually come to an end, and we’ve been looking for a long time how to bring this one to an end,” Mattis said. “We’ll look at the proposal [to] see if it can work.” Mattis would not say if the U.S.-led coalition would respect the flight restrictions imposed by Russia that would effectively turn the de-confliction zones into “no-fly zones” as well. “The fight against ISIS will go on,” Mattis said.