President Biden took “responsibility for fundamentally all that’s happened of late,” at a White House press conference on the deadly attacks outside the Kabul airport and the continuing evacuation.

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President Biden took “responsibility for fundamentally all that’s happened of late,” at a White House press conference on the deadly attacks outside the Kabul airport and the continuing evacuation.

Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Two explosions, one just outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul and another at the nearby Baron Hotel, killed dozens of people Thursday. Among them were 13 U.S. service members, including 11 U.S. Marines and one Navy corpsman. An Islamic State affiliate says it was behind the attacks, which came less than a day after the U.S. Embassy warned U.S. citizens to get out of the area.

Throughout the day Thursday, we maintained this live blog to capture the developments — from scenes on the ground to the reaction at the White House. This piece will not update further.

• To learn more about ISIS-K, the group behind the Kabul attacks, click here.
• To get a closer look at the president’s speech, click here.
• To read a chronological narrative of what happened Thursday, click here.

Update 7:40 p.m. ET:

The Defense Department has confirmed the death of a 13th U.S. service member and that 18 are wounded from the attack at the Kabul airport.

Those wounded “are in the process of being aeromedically evacuated from Afghanistan