What we know about US air strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites

The sites targeted include a uranium enrichment facility at Fordo.

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The strikes were launched as Israel and Iran continued to attack each other, after a long-simmering regional rivalry escalated into direct conflict earlier this month.

The impact and wider implications of the US strikes on Iran are still becoming clear. Here is what we know so far.

The operation - codenamed Midnight Hammer - involved 125 US military aircraft and targeted three nuclear facilities: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan.

They were hit between 22:40 GMT and 23:05 GMT on Saturday (02:40-03:05 on Sunday Tehran time), the US said.