Just hours before deadly explosions were set off, the State Department had issued a warning for Americans to leave the Kabul airport immediately. Shortly after the warning, there were two bombing attacks – one at the Kabul airport outside of the Abbey gate and one at a hotel nearby where Americans have gathered in the past for evacuation purposes. These attacks were reported to likely have been orchestrated by an Islamic State group that has worked in the Afghanistan region for about 6 years, ISIS-K.