Turkey's navy started evacuating more than 2,000 Turkish citizens and some foreign nationals from Beirut on Wednesday night as Israeli airstrikes targeted Hezbollah.

Beirut, Lebanon - October 09, 2024 Turkey on Wednesday deployed two military frigates to evacuate some 2,000 of its citizens stranded in Lebanon, as Israel's bombing campaign intensifies. The two Turkish-flagged navy vessels set sail for Beirut one day earlier as part of the evacuation operation,

More than 1,000 Americans and their dependents have fled war-hit Lebanon aboard U.S. chartered flights in the last week, arriving in Turkey for a temporary stay, the top U.S. diplomat in Istanbul said on Thursday.