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Here's a look at some of the key comments that we've heard this morning as the head of NATO heaped praise on Donald Trump.

Mark Rutte said the expected hike in the alliance's defence and security spending target to 5% of GDP "wouldn't have happened" without the US president.

Trump described the move as a "great victory for everybody", and said: "NATO is going to become very strong with us".

You can read the rest of the recap here:

Getting inspectors back to Iran's nuclear facilities to assess the impact of US and Israeli military strikes is the top priority, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog has said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would then be able to verify Iran's stocks of enriched uranium, Rafael Grossi said.

"This is the number one priority," he told a news conference at an Austrian security cabinet meeting.

Asked if Iran had informed him of the status of its enriched uranium stocks, particularly that enriched to up to 60% (close to weapons grade) he pointed to a letter he received from Iran earlier this month saying Tehran would take "special measures" to protect its nuclear materials and equipment.

"They did not get into details as to what that meant but clearly that was the implicit meaning of that. We can imagine this material is there," Grossi said.

His comments suggest much of that material may have survived the attacks, which chimes with US intelligence reports suggesting the strikes did not destroy Iran's nuclear programme - something denied by Donald Trump, who said the sites had been "obliterated".

It has been "a lot calmer" in Jerusalem than it has been in the past week, Sky correspondent Tom Cheshire, who is on the ground there, reports.

He says there has been a lot of focus on the Fordow nuclear site in Iran and the extent of the destruction there, but in terms of the wider picture, it's not just about that military site but also about the diplomatic effort.

"I think that's why the ceasefire is so important. We don't have many of the details yet but it has been holding," he says.

"People here in Jerusalem slept easy for the first time in a while, we don't have sirens or alerts sending people down to shelters."

Cheshire says it is "a lot calmer than it has been in the past week".

"That calmness means attention probably can turn back to Gaza," he adds.

"That might be the next chapter here."

We have some pictures to bring you from Iran now, after the Israeli strikes on the country in the last two weeks.

As we've been reporting, so far today, a ceasefire between Israel and Iran appears to be holding.

But during the conflict, it has been difficult to report on the damage inside Iran, due to restrictions on journalists in the country.

These pictures have been released today but Sky News cannot independently verify where or when they were taken.

And the pictures below show members of the Iranian Red Crescent Society inspecting a damaged building following an Israeli strike in Iran. Again, they were released today.

Speaking ahead of the NATO summit earlier, Donald Trump claimed the US strikes on Iran brought the war between Tehran and Israel to a close.

Asked how long he thinks the Iranian nuclear programme had been put back, he said: "I think decades. I don't think they will ever do it again."

He added: "I think they have had it. They just went to hell. The last thing they want to do is enrich.

"When you look at a site like that, it is very hard to rebuild."

He went on to say "that hit ended the war".

Watch Trump's comments here:

We brought you reports earlier from Israel's military that seven personnel, an officer and six soldiers, were killed in fighting in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday (see post at 6.35).

Israeli media reported the seven were in the city of Khan Younis when an explosive device planted on their vehicle detonated, setting it on fire.

Now, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a statement. 

He said: "This is a very difficult day for the people of Israel."

"Together with all citizens of Israel, my wife and I mourn, and are pained over, the fall of seven of our fighters, of blessed memory, from the Combat Engineering Battalion", he said.

The Israeli leader said on behalf of the citizens of Israel, he sent "heartfelt condolences to the families that have lost what is dearest to them".

Despite doubts from the Kremlin (see previous post) and reports about US intelligence assessments in the American press, Donald Trump and his top team are sticking to the line that Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed.

Earlier, we brought you Trump's comments from the NATO summit. Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, chipped in at the same news conference.

And before that, Rubio said in an interview that Iran is "much further away from a nuclear weapon" because of Trump's decision to order strikes.

In an interview with , Rubio said: "The bottom line is, they are much further away from a nuclear weapon today than they were before the president took this bold action.

"That's the most important thing to understand - significant, very significant, substantial damage was done to a variety of different components, and we’re just learning more about it."

As we have been reporting today, an early intelligence assessment has indicated that the US military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of Tehran's nuclear programme and likely only set it back by months.

On the reports, Rubio said it was "false".

Away from the NATO summit, the Kremlin has disputed Donald Trump's claims that the US "obliterated" Iran's nuclear enrichment sites, saying it was too early for anyone to have a realistic picture of the damage inflicted.

Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Moscow viewed the attack on Iran as unprovoked and added the situation was concerning.

He claimed the reputation of the UN's nuclear watchdog had "suffered seriously" as a result of the US and Israeli strikes, adding that the Iranian parliament's decision to suspend cooperation with the watchdog was a direct result of the "unprovoked attack".

Inside The Hague, members of the NATO alliance are seated for talks - with Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump side-by-side.

Members of the media have now been asked to leave the room as world leaders hold discussions.

Addressing world leaders at the summit, Mark Rutte says NATO's enduring commitment to Article 5 that an attack on one is an attack on all "sends a powerful message".

"In this meeting we will take historic and transformational decisions to make our people safer through a stronger, fair and lethal NATO," he says.

He says raising defence spending to 5% GDP is how this will be done.

Turning towards Donald Trump, who is sat beside him, the NATO chief says for too long the US has "carried too much of the burden of the commitment".

"That changes today," he says.

"Dear Donald, you made this change possible. Your leadership on this has already produced $1trn in extra sending from European allies from 2016."