CAIRO: Qatar returned its ambassador to Cairo on Tuesday, almost a month after recalling him in response to an Egyptian official accusing the tiny Gulf nation of supporting terrorism. The ambassador was summoned home for consultation after Egypt carried out airstrikes in Libya in February in response to the beheading of 21 captive Egyptian Christians by an Islamic State affiliate there.

Qatar protested Egypt’s “unilateral” airstrikes, while Egypt’s delegate to the Arab League accused Doha of supporting terrorism. The ambassador resumed his work Tuesday, after returning to Egypt with the emir of Qatar to attend an Arab League summit last weekend.

Cairo and Doha were at odds when the Egyptian military overthrew President Muhammad Mursi following mass protests against him.

The military-backed government that succeeded Mursi withdrew Egypt’s envoy from Doha in January 2014.