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.<br /><br />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.<br />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".<br />"There is no ceasefire [with the US] now. They are attacking us and we are attacking them," Shaheen said.
