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FILE - In this May 21, 2017 file photo, Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa speaks during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Two Los Angeles-based rabbis say Bahrain’s king recently told them he wants the Arab boycott of Israel to end, comments coming as Arab nations slowly have inched closer to Israel over recent years due to their mutually shared suspicions about Iran in the Mideast. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Rabbis say Bahrain king wants Arab boycott of Israel to end

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

FILE- In this Jan. 6, 2010 file photo, construction cranes display huge banners with poetry welcoming Bahrain's leaders -- King Hamed bin Isa Al Khalifa, Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and Crown Prince Salman bin Hamed Al Khalifa, in Muharraq, Bahrain. In a slickly produced Islamic State group propaganda video, that surfaced as a Gulf Cooperation Council conference attended by British Prime Minister Theresa May ended on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, IS called on its followers to launch attacks in Bahrain, including those targeting American military personnel stationed on the tiny island ahead of a visit by the U.S. defense secretary. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

IS calls for attacks on US bases in uneasy island of Bahrain

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, right, holds a new conference before leaving to the United States at Baghdad airport, Iraq, Monday, April 13, 2015. The prime minister is making an in-person appeal to President Barack Obama for more help in defeating the Islamic State militants, hoping recent gains in the fight fueled by U.S. airstrikes will encourage more investment from a war-weary United States. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Haider al-Abadi, Adel al-Jubeir spar over Yemen

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, photo, a Shiite militia fighter holds an Iraqi flag with the image of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammed, outside of Kirkuk, Iraq. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

Iraq Shiite militias rush to defend oil-rich Kirkuk from Islamic State

By Vivian Salama and Bram Janssen - Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki waits for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ahead of their meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 23, 2014. Kerry is visiting Iraqi leaders to discuss the increasing violence and instability in country caused by insurgents including the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Al-Maliki defiant: Iraqi Prime Minister rejects calls to form unity government

Associated Press

Members of the Iraqi security forces who have never left their positions stand guard at the entrance checkpoint of the Bansher district, 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Iraq, Friday, June 20, 2014. The poster at left shows Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Malik. Iraqi army and police forces battling them for months have been unable to take most areas back, and over the past week or so the militants have also taken over the cities of Mosul and Tikrit. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

Top Shiite cleric calls for new government in Iraq

Associated Press

An Iraqi man casts his vote at a polling center in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. A key election for a new Iraqi parliament was underway on Wednesday amid a massive security operation as the country continued to slide deeper into sectarian violence more than two years after U.S. forces left the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqis vote in an election without foreign troops

By HAMZA HENDAWI and SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

A poster depicting Iran's supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right), and Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, late father of the radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, towers over a Baghdad street on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iranian ayatollah is poster boy for influence in Iraq

By Lara Jakes and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press