Qatar confirmed that its emir will visit the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, on the first such visit by an Arab head of state since the Islamist Hamas seized control of the coastal enclave in 2007.

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani "will make a brief visit to the Gaza Strip to inaugurate a number of projects funded by Qatar as part of its efforts to rebuilt the Strip," Qatar's official QNA news agency said on Monday.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati held positive talks in Doha on Monday as his visit was considered a first step to lift the travel ban issued by the Gulf countries to Lebanon, local newspapers reported.

According to al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Tuesday, competent ministers from Lebanon and Qatar will hold extraordinary meetings to resume coordination in various issues.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem Al-Thani said Monday that the gas-rich Gulf state had no political motivations behind its business investments in France.

"Qatar is not a country with great political ambitions ... and it wants no political role from its investments in France," Sheikh Hamad said at a press conference in Doha.

U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is considering proposing the deployment of peacekeepers to Syria if a deal on a transition is reached, a member of the opposition Syrian National Council said on Monday.

One of Brahimi's ideas "is considering the deployment of peacekeeping forces which would accompany any political proposal," the head of the SNC's media office Ahmed Ramadan told Agence France Presse in Doha as the exiled opposition group began a meeting in the Qatari capital.

The majority of weapons secretly shipped to Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar go to hardline Islamic rebel groups rather than more secular organizations favored by the West, The New York Times reported Monday.

Citing unnamed officials, the newspaper said this was the conclusion reached in classified reports presented to President Barack Obama and other senior officials.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani stated on Monday that the his country is prepared to comply with any suggestion to ease the political and economic situation on Lebanon.

He said: “Qatar is studying the possibility of allowing its residents to travel to Lebanon in light of the improved security situation there.”

The United States believes Iran was behind a major cyberattack on Saudi Arabia's state oil company and a Qatari gas firm, a former U.S. official who has worked on cybersecurity issues said Friday.

In a major cybersecurity speech on Thursday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta issued a veiled warning to Tehran that Washington is ready to take preemptive action to protect U.S. computer networks, the former official said.

A meeting next week of the Syrian National Council to admit new anti-regime factions into the main opposition bloc has been postponed until early November, an SNC official said on Friday.

The delay comes after the umbrella organization was flooded by requests from groups wanting to join it, SNC official Anas al-Abdi told Agence France Presse, adding that the meeting will now take place in early November instead of on October 17.

Discouraged by lack of U.S. support, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have stopped short of arming Syrian rebels with the heavier weapons that could turn the tide of the war, The New York Times said Saturday.

Without the heavy weaponry, the rebels are only able to maintain a stalemate with President Bashar Assad's better-armed security forces, possibly prolonging the brutal war that began nearly 19 months ago and has already killed more than 31,000 people.

A Qatar airways flight from Doha safely made an emergency landing in the Nigerian economic capital Lagos on Saturday after encountering a problem with its tires, the civil aviation body said.

"The plane has landed safely," said Harold Demuren, the head of Nigeria's Civil Aviation Authority. "We lost one of the tires... We are now towing the aircraft," at Murtala Mohammed International airport, he added.