DUBAI- Qatar said on Tuesday it will help international efforts to ease the humanitarian crisis in Syria with $100 million, according to the Doha-based Al Jazeera television network.

The humanitarian situation will only improve with a political solution to the crisis, Al Jazeera quoted the Gulf state's Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, as saying.

(Reporting by Aziz El Yaakoubi; Editing by Alison Williams) ((aziz.elyaakoubi@thomsonreuters.com; +971552994086; Reuters Messaging: aziz.elyaakoubi.reuters.com@reuters.net))