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Images showing widespread damage to multiple US sites in the Middle East from Iranian strikes have been obtained by the BBC's US partner CBS.
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The photos, provided by active military personnel, show a severed radar jet, flattened trailers and severely damaged buildings.
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The undated photos were taken at US bases and sites in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
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One member of the military, who was not named by CBS, said: "This is major damage to our bases that hasn't been communicated to the American public.
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We're standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face."
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The White House and US Central Command have been approached for comment.
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The photos, which have not been independently verified by the BBC, were published the day after a report from the Pentagon's watchdog confirmed hundreds of buildings and structures at US bases in the Middle East have been damaged and destroyed by Iran.
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One of the photos showed a destroyed Boeing E-3 Sentry at Prince Sultan Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia that has been ripped in half, its tail section crumpled into a tangled mess of metal.
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While the photo is undated, BBC Verify previously confirmed a similar photo, apparently of the same radar aircraft in March.
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The Boeing E-3 Awacs are used to detect and track potential targets at long ranges to provide an early warning of possible threats.
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At the time, a US official told Reuters that 12 US personnel had been wounded, two of them seriously, in an Iranian attack on the air base.
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A pair of undated images reportedly from Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, show crumpled trailers, and a large tent-like structure that had been reduced to shreds as smoke billowed from the site.
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Another image shows a four-storey building damaged by an Iranian strike at Camp Arifjan, in Kuwait.
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Damage to the site was reported in March, including on satellite communications hardware, though it is not clear whether this image is from the same attack.
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The images were published on the heels of a report from the Pentagon's watchdog, which found Iranian strikes had "damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings and structures at US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan during the conflict".
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It also noted that equipment losses have totalled $3.7bn (£2.8bn). Overall, the US spent $33.4bn (£24.7bn) on the war up to 29 June, the report said.
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In the months after the war began, "dozens of US aircraft were destroyed or damaged", the report continues.
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The document lists several of the aircraft damaged, including five refuelling aircraft which were "damaged or destroyed on the ground in Saudi Arabia by Iranian munitions".
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Public and political pressure has mounted on the White House to find an end to the conflict with Iran, which began on 28 February when the US and Israel launched joint attacks on the country.
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Since the war began Iran has repeatedly attacked US bases and allied states in the Gulf, as well as Israel.
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On Tuesday night, the US House of Representatives voted for the third time to end the war in Iran, approving a measure that would force President Donald Trump to end US military action without congressional approval.
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The vote passed with the help of several Republicans, in what is likely to be the final such House vote ahead of the US midterm elections in November.
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