According to the press service, the meeting took place during the visit of Mattis to Jordan.
“Minister Mattis met ... to express gratitude to the United States for Jordan’s efforts to combat IS and to reaffirm the United States’s long-term cooperation with Jordan ... In addition, the Minister expressed gratitude to Jordan for supporting the US military presence and for our strong bilateral security cooperation” - says the release of the Pentagon.
Recall Jordan is part of the Western coalition to combat the IG, led by the United States.
It is noted that after Jordan, Mattis will visit Turkey (August 23), and a day later he will arrive in Kiev, where he will hold talks with Poroshenko and the Minister of Defense of the Republic, and will also attend a military parade on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day.