<p>France ended its evacuations from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan late Friday, officials said, one day after a suicide bombing left scenes of carnage outside Kabul airport.</p>.<p>The airlift had to be stopped because "the security conditions were no longer being met at the airport", Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Defence Minister Florence Parly said in the wake of Thursday's attack, which killed scores of Afghan civilians and 13 US troops.</p>.<p>In a statement, the ministers blamed the lack of security on the "rapid disengagement of the American forces".</p>.<p>Separately, Parly tweeted that the French forces had managed to fly around 3,000 people out of Afghanistan before their airlift operation was halted.</p>.<p>"In less than two weeks, the French military has brought some 3,000 people to safety, including more than 2,600 Afghans," she tweeted.</p>.<p>The French embassy team in Kabul has reached Abu Dhabi and from there will fly home to France, the ministers said.</p>.<p>France has called for setting up humanitarian operations to assist the thousands of Afghan nationals who failed to get a flight out to leave by other means.</p>.<p>"Our efforts continue," the two ministers said.</p>.<p>A French delegation met Thursday with Taliban representatives with the talks centring on the situation at the Kabul airport and the airlift operations, the ministers said.</p>
<p>France ended its evacuations from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan late Friday, officials said, one day after a suicide bombing left scenes of carnage outside Kabul airport.</p>.<p>The airlift had to be stopped because "the security conditions were no longer being met at the airport", Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Defence Minister Florence Parly said in the wake of Thursday's attack, which killed scores of Afghan civilians and 13 US troops.</p>.<p>In a statement, the ministers blamed the lack of security on the "rapid disengagement of the American forces".</p>.<p>Separately, Parly tweeted that the French forces had managed to fly around 3,000 people out of Afghanistan before their airlift operation was halted.</p>.<p>"In less than two weeks, the French military has brought some 3,000 people to safety, including more than 2,600 Afghans," she tweeted.</p>.<p>The French embassy team in Kabul has reached Abu Dhabi and from there will fly home to France, the ministers said.</p>.<p>France has called for setting up humanitarian operations to assist the thousands of Afghan nationals who failed to get a flight out to leave by other means.</p>.<p>"Our efforts continue," the two ministers said.</p>.<p>A French delegation met Thursday with Taliban representatives with the talks centring on the situation at the Kabul airport and the airlift operations, the ministers said.</p>