BAGHDAD/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq has withdrawn from the 2014-5 Gulf Cup of Nations in protest at a decision to move the tournament from the southern city of Basra to Saudi Arabia, in a spat highlighting the two countries' worsening relations.
The competition between the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), plus usually Iraq and Yemen, is little known outside the region, but hotly contested within it and is next due to be held in late 2014 or early 2015.
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