About 700 UK troops are being deployed to an RAF base in Cyprus in case the military needs to evacuate British citizens from Lebanon, where the situation is deteriorating. The troops join several hundred already stationed on the island, where the UK has maintained two armed forces bases for over 60 years. RAF Akrotiri, the base in the news, hosts an RAF squadron and is equipped with aircraft and warships that would be used in any evacuation operation.
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