Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif assured Gulf Arab states Sunday his country's nuclear deal with the West is in their interest and also announced plans to visit Saudi Arabia.

"The solution to this issue serves the interests of all countries in the region. It is not at the expense of any state in the region," Zarif said after meeting Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Sabah Khaled al-Sabah.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati said on Thursday that Qatar pledged to offer the Lebanese government direct funds to aid Syrian refugees on Lebanese territories.

Miqati said in comments published in As Safir newspaper that Doha will continue also to cooperate with international and humanitarian organizations to contribute in improving the conditions of the refugees.

One of the suicide bombers behind the attack against the Iranian embassy in Beirut last week had arrived in Lebanon from Kuwait two months ago, reported An Nahar daily on Tuesday.

It said that Moein Abu Dahr spent the two months residing in Lebanon and Syria and that he entered the countries using his identification card.

Kuwait's supreme court Monday upheld a death sentence for a member of the Gulf state's ruling family convicted of killing his nephew, also a royal, according to the verdict.

Sheikh Faisal Abdullah Al-Sabah was convicted of shooting Sheikh Basel Salem Al-Sabah to death at the latter's palace in June 2010, apparently over a dispute on board membership at a sports club.

Kuwait's supreme court upheld Monday a death sentence against a woman for murdering her Filipina maid after torturing her, and confirmed a 10-year sentence on her disabled husband.

The ruling is final and cannot be challenged but could be commuted to a life term by the ruler of the Gulf emirate. Executions in Kuwait are carried out by hanging.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati is expected to kick off a tour to Arab and European countries to urge them to commit to their financial pledges to share the burden of the displaced Syrians, who have put a severe strain on Lebanon's economy.

Miqati, according to An Nahar newspaper published on Monday, will make Qatar his first stop of the tour, which will include Kuwait also.

Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz held talks on Saturday with Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Jaber al-Sabah and Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.

Sources told Naharnet that a Kuwaiti mediation succeed in rectifying the ties between Saudi Arabia and Qatar after disputes on regional developments.

Human Rights Watch on Wednesday condemned a five-year jail term slapped on a Shiite in Kuwait for tweets deemed offensive to Prophet Mohammed and called for his release.

Musaab Shamsah was the second Kuwaiti from the minority Shiite community to be jailed in less than a month on the same charge.

President Michel Suleiman reiterated late Tuesday that Lebanese authorities were working on keeping the country at a distance from the region's turmoil, hours after suicide bombers struck the Iranian embassy in Beirut.

“We in Lebanon work through the Baabda Declaration to distance Lebanon from the conflicts, the tension and their negative repercussions,” Suleiman said in his speech at the third Arab-African summit held in Kuwait.

Two Kuwaiti Shiite lawmakers on Monday filed a motion to question the municipality minister for allegedly ordering the removal of tents used by Shiites at a major religious event.

Abdullah al-Tameemi and Faisal al-Duwaisan accused State Minister for Municipality and Housing Salem al-Othaina of "undermining national unity, destabilizing the internal front, misusing authority and breaching the constitution".