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By David Blevins, US correspondent

The B2 bombers have returned to their US base, but questions about the success of their airstrikes last weekend hang in the air.

President Donald Trump is pushing back hard against a leaked preliminary intelligence report, suggesting the audacious bombing raid only set Iran's nuclear ambition back "by months."

"It's destroyed... Iran will not have nuclear. We blew it up. It's blown to kingdom come," Trump told a press conference.

A statement from CIA director John Ratcliffe backed that up.

But Democrats say Trump was claiming Iran's underground facilities had been "obliterated" long before any intelligence had been received.

Arizona senator Mark Kelly, who flew 39 combat missions in the first Gulf War, said: "He's just saying that because he wants that to be the narrative.

"He said it the night of the strike, without any information, not even satellite imagery, and certainly without any information about what happened underneath 200 feet of rock and granite and dirt.

"The likelihood of something underground like that being obliterated is incredibly low," he added.

Senator Kelly blamed Trump for Iran's enrichment growing from "less than 4% to, public reporting, 60%", accusing him of "chucking the Obama deal out the window."

The leaking of the classified report from the Pentagon and subsequent debate has enraged US defence secretary Pete Hegseth.

"If you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep because Iran's nuclear programme is obliterated," he said.

"Those that dropped the bombs precisely in the right place know exactly what happened when they exploded, and you know who else knows? Iran."

The White House is railing against what it calls the "fake news media" for reporting the content of the leaked report.

But the success of a military operation has become a battle of political narratives in Congress.

That will last longer than a 12-day war because the truth lies buried, quite literally, deep underground.

While much of the world's attention has been on Israel's conflict with Iran in the last two weeks, the war in Gaza has been ongoing.

Nearly 900 Palestinians were killed in the enclave during the 12 days that the Israel and Iran fought, according to a tally of figures from the Hamas-run health ministry.

Here are the latest images from Gaza showing buildings in ruin, smoke rising after an explosion and Israeli military vehicles manoeuvring.

The head of the CIA says that a "body of credible intelligence" indicates that Iran's nuclear programme has been "severely damaged" by recent strikes.

"This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years," John Ratcliffe adds in a statement on X.

For context: An early US intelligence report was leaked yesterday that suggested US strikes did not destroy the core components of Iran's nuclear programme and only set it back by a matter of months.

Donald Trump disputed the report today, doubling down that the US has "obliterated" the sites and set the programme back "decades". His defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, claimed there was a "political motive" behind the leak.

Downing Street is already calling the government's decision to purchase at least 12 new F-35 stealth jets the most significant strengthening of the country's nuclear capability in a generation.

In purchasing the aircraft, Sir Keir Starmer is handing the Royal Air Force the ability to carry airborne nuclear warheads for the first time since the 1990s.

So, what are these jets? And why is the UK expanding its nuclear capability?

Lead UK news presenter Sarah-Jane Mee speaks to Dr Thomas Withington, an expert in air defence, to understand what this move means for the UK and what it tells us about the shift to make the country war ready. 

By Tom Cheshire, data and forensics correspondent, in Jerusalem

President Donald Trump has suggested a ceasefire in Gaza may be imminent, saying that "great progress" is being made, as a result of the end of the recent 12-day Israel-Iran war. 

"Because of this attack that we made, I think we're going to have some good news鈥� Gaza's very close," Trump told the NATO summit this afternoon.

Even as the conflict between Israel and Iran has dominated headlines, the war in Gaza has been grinding on. 

Israel said that seven soldiers had been killed by an explosive device in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave - the highest death toll in a single incident since the breakdown of a truce in March. 

And the Gaza Health Ministry, run by Hamas, said that another 33 people had been killed, and 267 people injured, seeking aid at food distribution points. 

Sky News's Gaza team observed bodies being laid out at Nasser Hospital, and people being treated, after reports of gunfire at one aid point near the Netzarim corridor, in the middle of Gaza.

Aid points criticised as 'death traps'

Rabih Abed-Rabo, a Palestinian man, told Sky News that tens of thousands of people had gone to the site to seek food. 

"I'm really thanking God I managed to get this bag. I have to feed 15 people. We've been trying for three months," he said. 

"I went back and forth to that area 10 times. Near the tanks, near the Israelis, through intense gunfire. Thank God."

The Gaza Health Ministry says that in total, 549 people have been killed at the food distribution centres since March.  

The aid stations are operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private organisation backed by Israel and now funded directly by the US too. 

A UN official has described them as "death traps".

The IDF did not comment on the latest incident but told Sky News: "The Ministry of Health in Gaza is controlled and directed by Hamas, and is therefore subject to its agenda. In consequence, as has been proved and demonstrated repeatedly, the data of the Ministry is replete with inconsistencies and false determinations."

In a rare public statement, Mossad, Israel's top-secret intelligence agency, praised the "historic" operation against Iran, declaring that the threat from Iran has now been "significantly neutralised".

It says its agents have been working "shoulder to shoulder" with the Israeli military "in order to realise the goals of the campaign and to bring it to its conclusion".

Mossad chief David Barnea said yesterday that the agency will continue to keep a "watchful eye on all known Iranian projects".

"We are intimately familiar with them - and we will be there, just as we have been until now," he said.

Barnea also expressed "gratitude and esteem for our central partner, the CIA", whose cooperation helped "make the operation possible".

The eastern half of Iran has reopened its airspace, aircraft tracker Flightradar24 says.

It says the western half of the country remains closed except for international flights in and out of Tehran and "special domestic flights" - both with prior permission required. 

A senator has cast further doubt on Donald Trump's repeated claims that Iran's nuclear sites were "obliterated".

Mark Kelly, a veteran and former astronaut who's now a part of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told us the chances of Trump being correct are "incredibly low".

Speaking to our US correspondent David Blevins, he said "when stuff is underground, it's a really challenging thing to do", referring to Iran's Fordow site deep in the mountains.

He said he flew 39 combat missions in the first Gulf War, and believes Trump is talking about "obliteration" to set the "narrative".

"He said it the night of the strike, without any information. Without even satellite imagery, and certainly without any information about what happened underneath 200ft of rock and granite and dirt."

The likelihood, he added, of "something like that being obliterated is incredibly low".

Watch the exchange in the 60-second video below...

Donald Trump's NATO summit news conference today was a fascinating watch for Sky's US correspondent Mark Stone.

Trump spoke for over half an hour in The Hague, covering several issues including the Israel-Iran conflict and America's intervention in it.

He hit out at reports that US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities weren't as impactful as Trump had previously suggested, doubling down that they had been "obliterated." 

There was then a surprise announcement that America and Iran would sit down for talks next week.

"The fact that he said that Iran and America are going to talk directly next week is extraordinary," says Stone.

"It's new. We don't know any detail about it. Is it true? Is he jumping Iran into talks? We just don't know."

Stone adds that there was one "moment of humanity" from Trump when he spoke to a woman who revealed her husband was a soldier fighting in Ukraine (see 15.43 post).

"He's not good at emotion, he's not good at empathy. But I sense that, probably for the first time I've ever seen, he actually connected with that woman," Stone says.

"You could see that he was thinking, 'My goodness, I kind of begin to get what you're going through'. I thought that was a really interesting moment in a fascinating news conference."

At least 627 people were killed in Iran during its recent conflict with Israel, Iranian state media outlet IRIB says, citing the country鈥檚 health ministry.

The report added that at least 4,870 other people were injured by Israeli attacks between.

The map below shows the location of Israeli strikes on Iran between June 13 and June 24.