Qatar's top court upheld a 15-year jail sentence Monday against a poet convicted of incitement against the regime, despite the emirate's support for uprisings elsewhere in the Arab world.

"The Court of Cassation sentenced Mohammed al-Ajami to 15 years in prison," confirming the sentence given to the poet by an appeals court in February, Nejib al-Naimi told Agence France Presse.

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called for all countries with a stake in war-wracked Syria to participate in planned peace talks in Geneva, during a visit to Iraq on Monday.

"All those with interests and influence in the Syrian affair must participate in the meeting," Brahimi said, when asked at a Baghdad news conference whether countries backing the opposition were welcome at the talks.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel and General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim confirmed that a three-way deal that saw the release of nine Lebanese pilgrims and two Turkish pilots will be fully implemented through the liberation of Syrian women detainees.

In remarks to al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Monday, Ibrahim expressed relief at the return of the nine pilgrims home and the release of the two Turkish Airlines pilots.

Lebanese ex-hostage Ali Termos says his Syrian rebel captors moved him 13 times during his 17-month ordeal, constantly stringing him along with the lie that freedom was hours away.

"My nerves were wrecked. I counted that we were moved 13 times, maybe more," he said in his living room, hours after his release and return home late Saturday via Turkey.

The fate of dozens of Syrian women detainees who were to be freed in exchange for nine released Lebanese hostages was unknown on Sunday.

On Saturday, the nine pilgrims kidnapped 17 months ago by rebels in northern Syria were set free, as were two Turkish pilots taken hostage in Beirut in August, as part of an exchange mediated by Lebanese officials and Doha.

Qatari authorities have restored several government websites attacked by hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army, who support President Bashar Assad's regime, local media reported Sunday.

Qatar's Supreme Council of Information and Technology (ictQatar) said in a statement carried by local media that it has "recovered all government websites hacked on Saturday."

Lebanese officials expressed relief on Saturday over the near return of the nine Lebanese pilgrims, who were kidnapped by rebels in Syria last year.

Speaker Nabih Berri congratulated the nine men and their relatives.

Progress in the release of the nine Lebanese pilgrims held in Syria's Aazaz region was achieved by Qatar on Wednesday, reported al-Liwaa newspaper on Saturday.

A Turkish source told the daily that Qatar crowned its negotiations with the kidnappers by paying them 150 million dollars for the release of the pilgrims who were abducted in Syria's Aleppo region in May 2012.

Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiya on Friday announced that “the Qatari mediation has led to the release of the nine Lebanese” hostages who were abducted in Syria's Aazaz and Lebanese officials have confirmed his remarks.

Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera television reported the story in a breaking news ticker without elaborating any further.

Qatari security forces have made arrests over the murder of a European woman, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after a 24-year-old British teacher was found dead in the Gulf state.

Teacher Lauren Patterson went missing on Saturday after a night out, according to British press reports. Her body was found shortly afterwards.