Satellite images show chaos and crowds at Kabul's airport as thousands try to escape Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover

• Satellite images showed crowds of Afghans attempting to flee via Kabul's airport.
• The Taliban quickly took over Afghanistan as the US completed its withdrawal of military forces.
• Thousands of Afghan civilians, families, and former military interpreters are trying to escape.

Thousands of people in Afghanistan fled to the Hamid Karzai Airport in Kabul on Monday in a last-ditch effort to flee the country after the Taliban rapidly overtook the region.

Photos and videos showed many Afghans on runways and latching on to US planes attempting to take off. Some people fell off the planes.

New satellite images from Maxar Technologies reveal the scale of the humanitarian crisis as people try to escape Afghanistan.

The satellite photos also gave a glimpse of the chaos outside the airport as hundreds of vehicles tried to approach the airfield.

People appeared to abandon their cars in a rush to board the last planes leaving Kabul. John Kirby, the Pentagon's press secretary, said on Monday that military and civilian flights were grounded as US troops tried to reestablish a security perimeter around the airport.

It was unclear when flights out of the country would resume. The Pentagon announced on Monday that it was sending 1,000 more troops to Kabul for a total of 7,000 troops in Afghanistan's capital.