Questions are growing over how much damage Iran actually inflicted on American military installations in the Middle East after a new report suggested the public account may have left out some of the most serious blows. At the centre of the claims is an allegation that an Iranian F-5 fighter jet bombed Camp Buehring in Kuwait despite the base having air defences, a breach that would mark a major lapse at a heavily protected site.
The NBC News report draws on findings from the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, as well as interviews with three US officials, two congressional aides and another person familiar with the damage. It also raises fresh scrutiny over whether the Trump administration has disclosed the full scale of the military and human cost from Iran's retaliatory strikes.
