Hopes for a breakthrough in the 30-year estrangement between the U.S. and Iran had an impact on President Michel Suleiman's Gulf tour that was gradually postponed, local newspapers reported on Tuesday.

According to As Safir newspaper, Saudi Arabia postponed Suleiman's visit to Riyadh over the international and regional developments.

President Michel Suleiman has said Lebanese authorities would push for the return of some of the Syrian refugees, who have escaped to Lebanon, to safe areas in their country.

In remarks to An Nahar newspaper published on Monday, Suleiman said: “Their return would take place through coordination with the local administration.”

The United Arab Emirates has recalled its ambassador from Tunisia to protest calls by the Tunisian president for the liberation of Egypt's deposed head of state, reports said Saturday.

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki had called on the UAE-backed new rulers in Cairo to free Mohamed Morsi, the Islamist president deposed in a military-led coup on July 3, in a speech this week at the U.N. General Assembly.

Oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Wednesday announced giving $100 million to Morocco in "financial support" to build solar and wind power farms, WAM state news agency said.

The aid is aimed at supporting economic and social development, and supporting the drive to use clean and renewable energy, it said.

France, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan have agreed to strengthen the Syrian opposition in its battle against Bashar Assad's regime, the French presidency said Friday.

After a meeting in Paris, French President Francois Hollande and foreign ministers from the three countries "agreed on the need to strengthen international support for the democratic opposition to allow it to face attacks by the regime," the Elysee said in a statement.

Eighteen out of 69 UAE Islamists serving jail terms for plotting to overthrow the government are on hunger strike in protest at alleged maltreatment, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

Six of the prisoners began their hunger strike on July 31, and three of them collapsed between August 21 and August 28, the rights group said.

Kuwait is to deport nine Egyptian Islamists for participating in protests outside their embassy in the Gulf emirate which bans foreigners from demonstrating, a newspaper said on Monday.

The men were among a group of some 70 protesters who staged two demonstrations outside the Egyptian embassy and consulate last week, to protest a deadly crackdown in Cairo of supporters of Egypt's deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi, al-Rai newspaper reported.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to try to distance himself Friday from comments he made that were seen as endorsing the Egyptian military's overthrow of a civilian ruler.

Washington has struggled to articulate a coherent position on the situation in Egypt, where the army stepped in to depose president Mohammed Morsi following large-scale street protests.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates called on Friday for Egypt to return to normal and restore stability after fresh protests.

"Egypt needs to get back to a new normal," Kerry said on a stopover in London, after Islamist backers of Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Morsi staged defiant rallies.

Unknown attackers fired a rocket at the UAE embassy in Tripoli Thursday causing little damage and no casualties, Libya's interior ministry said, in the latest assault targeting foreign missions in the country.

"An RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) was fired on the building which sustained minor damage," said ministry spokesman Rami Said, adding that no one was hurt in the incident.