The Taliban will continue to attack US targets in Afghanistan but will simultaneously seek to end the conflict by pursuing peace talks, a spokesman of the armed group told Al Jazeera.

Tuesday's announcement came as the Taliban opened a political office in the Qatari capital, Doha, to help start talks on ending the 12-year-old conflict, saying it wanted a political solution that would bring about a just government and end foreign occupation.
Taliban spokesman Mohammad Sohail Shaheen, a member of the newly opened political office, stressed that there is no ceasefire with the US and its allies and that the Taliban "simultaneously follows political and military options".
"There is no ceasefire [with the US] now. They are attacking us and we are attacking them," Shaheen said.