Canada

• The Canadian government chartered seven ships to evacuate its citizens from Lebanon.
• The first ship to arrive in Larnaca, Cyprus carried 261 passengers. One hundred of them return to Canada on a plane carrying Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Others return home on chartered flights.
• Six other ships transported Canadians to Turkey, where they are to board government-chartered flights to Canada.
• Approximately 10,000 of the estimated 50,000 Canadians in Lebanon want to be removed from the war zone.
• Two Nova Scotia based Canadian navy ships are also on standby to help with the rescue and Canadian military personnel are being sent to Cyprus to help those being evacuated from Beirut.

United States

The U.S. used cruise liners, helicopters and marine ships to remove its citizens. It is thought that approximately 8,000 of the 25,000 Americans in Lebanon want to be transported out. So far, about 3,000 have been taken out, although 6,000 Americans were expected to have been out by July 21.

United Nations

The U.N. chartered a 600-seater ferry from Cyprus to take out staff and families.

Armenia

About 160 Armenians went home.

Australia

About 7,500 Australians with dual nationality registered to flee. Australia sent buses and two 800-passenger capacity ships to rescue its citizens.

Austria

At least 223 Austrians were taken out of Lebanon by bus or boat. As many as 80 Lebanese-Austrians have said they do not want to leave. At least 250 Austrians have fled.

Bangladesh

Bangladesh requested assistance from the International Organization of Migration to remove its 10,000 citizens from the war zone.

Belgium

About 400 of the 1,500 estimated Belgians in Lebanon have asked for help leaving. Belgium is sending buses to move them to northern Syria.

Brazil

Ninety-eight Brazilians were airlifted home from Turkey. There are still an estimated 70,000 Brazilians in Lebanon. Convoys are being arranged to take as many as 1,000 citizens from Beirut, Damascus and Amman to Turkey.

Britain

Royal Navy ships removed about 5,000 Britons from Lebanon.

Bulgaria

Bulgaria took out about 242 of its citizens by busing them to Syria or ferrying them to Cyprus.

Chile

An air force plane is heading to Damascus to transport Chileans trapped in Lebanon.

China

Eighty-two Chinese left through Syria.

Croatia

Croatia chartered a Croatian Airlines flight to take out 57 citizens, via Damascus.

Czech Republic

At least 75 Czech Republic citizens have been taken out.

Denmark

Most of the estimated 5,000 Danes in Lebanon have been taken out and flown to Denmark. The remaining Danish citizens are expected to leave by ferry to Cyprus.

Egypt

Two C-130 transport planes from the Egyptian air force took 202 Egyptians from Damascus.

France

Eight thousand of the 17,000 French citizens in Lebanon asked to be taken out. France charted several Greek and Cyprus-based ferries, which could carry 1,200 passengers, to make multiple runs to Beirut. So far, 2,000 have been taken out.

Germany

Germany was possibly the first country to complete the evacuation from Lebanon of all its citizens who wanted to leave. Buses transported about 5,000 citizens to Syria or Turkey. About 780 in Damascus and Amman were to take government-chartered flights back to Germany.

Greece

At least 518 Greeks were rescued.

India

Four Indian navy ships were sent to begin the removal of up to 12,000 Indian citizens, while 49 were taken to Syria by bus. About 600 were headed to Cyprus July 21.

Ireland

At least 50 Irish were taken out.

Italy

About 1,000 of an estimated 1,300 Italians in Lebanon were transported out, some by an Italian war ship.

Japan

Japan has 45 citizens in Lebanon waiting for safe passage.

Jordan

It has rescued 1,136 of its citizens.

Kazakhstan

About 20 citizens have been taken out. About 1,000 citizens of ex-Soviet states have been taken out so far.

Kuwait

Fifty Kuwaitis escaped to Syria by bus.

Malaysia

Ten Malays were rescued.

Mexico

One hundred and twenty-one Mexicans were taken out through Syria and Turkey.

Netherlands

About 125 Dutch evacuees left through Syria. Military helicopters were brought in to take them back to the Netherlands. About 130-140 citizens are in southern Lebanon.

Norway

At least 523 Norwegians were bused out through Syria or shipped out via Cyprus. Approximately 100 remained in Lebanon.

Pakistan

An evacuation is planned for up to 300.

Philippines

Approximately 34,000 Filipinos work in Lebanon. Plans for their departure by ship are underway.

Poland

Two hundred and fourteen Poles were transported out, while 30 more remained.

Portugal

Thirty Portuguese have left by plane and ship since the conflict began, but 22 remain.

Romania

About 770 of the 1,000 Romanians who were in Lebanon have fled or have been rescued.

Russia and former Soviet republics

More than 1,300 Russian evacuees were airlifted out, with the assistance of Syria and Lebanon. At least 1,356 Russians have been rescued.

Slovenia

Five Slovenians have left, with five still waiting.

Slovakia

At least 24 Slovaks have been taken out.

Spain

Five hundred and thirty-nine of the estimated 640 Spaniards in Lebanon were flown home. One hundred remain.

Sri Lanka

Planning is underway to rescue the first batch of 200 migrant workers, out of an estimated 80,000.

Sweden

Sweden took 6,400 of its citizens out of Lebanon, 3,700 of whom are home. The Foreign Ministry says a couple of hundred Swedes remain.

Switzerland

At least 500 Swiss have been rescued.

Thailand

Thirty-seven Thai citizens were taken to Syria.

Turkey

At least 104 Turkish citizens have left Lebanon.

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