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Guy Taylor

Guy Taylor

Guy Taylor is the National Security Editor at The Washington Times, overseeing the paper's State Department, Pentagon and intelligence coverage and driving the daily Threat Status newsletter. He has reported from dozens of countries and been a guest on the BBC, CNN, NPR, FOX, C-SPAN and The McLaughlin Group.

A series Mr. Taylor led on Russia's attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election was recognized with a Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency, and a Society for Professional Journalists award. In 2012, he won a Virginia Press Association award reporting from Mexico.

Prior to joining The Times in 2011, Mr. Taylor was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Fund For Investigative Journalism. He wrote for a variety publications, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to Salon, Reason, Prospect, the Daily Star of Beirut, the Jerusalem Post and the St. Petersburg Times. He also served as an editor at World Politics Review, wrote for America's Quarterly and produced videos and features for Agence France-Presse.

Mr. Taylor holds an M.S. in Global Security Studies from Angelo State University and a B.A. from Clark University. He was part of a team who won a Society of Professional Journalists award for their reporting on the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

He can be reached at gtaylor@washingtontimes.com.

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Articles by Guy Taylor

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 76th Session of the U.N. General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, at United Nations headquarters in New York. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP)

U.N. chief says weapons that can pick own targets ‘should be banned’

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres laid down a marker Tuesday for the United States and other nations pursuing the development of weaponry that uses artificial intelligence, asserting that weapons capable of picking their own targets "should be banned." Published September 21, 2021

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to Ella Pamfilova, head of Russian Central Election Commission during their meeting via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

‘Clone candidates,’ social media clashes mar big win for Putin’s party

Russian President Vladimir Putin has tightened his grip on power, with his country's pro-Kremlin ruling party retaining its parliamentary supermajority in legislative and gubernatorial elections that rivals claimed was rife with irregularities, including the alleged deployment of "clone candidates" to confuse voters in one key district. Published September 20, 2021

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Pompeo hits Biden’s ‘dangerous moves’ on North Korea

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday warned that President Biden is making "dangerous moves" on North Korea and his lack of a coherent response to Pyongyang's provocations jeopardizes American credibility with allies who want "leadership from the United States." Published September 18, 2021

In this file photo, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, right, and Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne, left, participate in the inaugural Quad leaders meeting with the President of the United States Joe Biden, the Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihide Suga and the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in a virtual meeting in Sydney, Saturday, March 13, 2021. (Dean Lewins/Pool via AP)  **FILE**

Biden prepares to host historic ‘Quad’ summit at White House

President Biden is preparing to host the first-ever in-person summit of leaders from the so-called "Quad" countries -- the U.S., India, Japan and Australia -- in a sign of growing momentum behind what began as a Trump-era push to rally Asia's most powerful democracies into a more formal grouping to confront and contain communist China. Published September 16, 2021

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attends a meeting with his South Korean counterpart Chung Eui-yong at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. The foreign ministers met Wednesday for talks expected to focus on North Korea and other regional security issues, two days after North Korea claimed to have tested a newly developed cruise missile. (Kim Seung-doo/Yonhap via AP)

China’s foreign minister blasts Five Eyes intel-sharing pact

A little-reported proposal by U.S. lawmakers to consider expanding the number of foreign nations allowed to participate in a sensitive intelligence-sharing program known as "Five Eyes" is causing a stir among American allies in Asia and pre-emptive pushback from China. Published September 15, 2021

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan react on the Blue Room Balcony after signing the Abraham Accords during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A year later, Trump’s Middle East dealmaking still reverberates

American, Israeli and Arab diplomats are celebrating Wednesday's one-year anniversary of the signing of the Abraham Accords -- the historic normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab powers that many saw as the greatest diplomatic game-changer of the Trump administration. Published September 14, 2021

In this May 3, 2011, file photo, local residents gather outside a house where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)

Still going after the bad guys: 20 years after 9/11, U.S. tallies wins, losses in war on terror

America's global war on terror, with massive troop deployments, clandestine Special Forces operations and futuristic drone strikes, has killed high-profile jihadi terrorist operatives in countries across the Middle East and succeeded in hunting down much of the core leadership of al Qaeda and the Islamic State group. But 20 years after the campaign began, Islamist radical extremism is putting down fresh roots around the world. Published September 9, 2021

Pakistani Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan lamented during a wide-ranging interview that millions of people inside Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir have been on lockdown without access to medicine or electricity.

EXCLUSIVE: Pakistan key to terror fight in wake of Taliban takeover, ambassador says

Pakistan's top diplomat in Washington said in an interview his country will remain a key partner in the U.S. counterterrorism campaign in the wake of the fall of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul, sharing a common goal of preventing a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan from becoming once again a pariah state and a safe harbor for terror groups such as al Qaeda and Islamic State. Published September 8, 2021

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, meet at Ramstein Air Base in south-western Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)

Wary Europe looks to its own defenses after U.S. Afghan debacle

President Biden arrived in office eight months ago vowing to fix America's image on the world stage and repair relations with allies that he claimed were "belittled, undermined and in some cases abandoned" by former President Trump, Published September 8, 2021

FILE - In this April 9, 2020, file photo, North Korean flags flutter in front of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly building in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea will convene its rubber-stamp parliament on Sept. 28, 2021 to discuss efforts to salvage an economy strained by pandemic border closures after decades of mismanagement and U.S.-led sanctions. (Kyodo News via AP, File)

Former envoy: More focus on North Korean human rights

U.S. policy toward North Korea should focus more on human rights, the former top American diplomat working on such matters said Tuesday, even as Pyongyang tries to prevent outside criticism from reaching its people. Published September 7, 2021

In this Aug. 17, 2021, photo, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, shakes hands with a journalist after his first news conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mujahid vowed that the Taliban would respect women's rights, forgive those who resisted them and ensure a secure Afghanistan as part of a publicity blitz aimed at convincing world powers and a fearful population that they have changed. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) **FILE**

New Afghan governing council will be controlled exclusively by Taliban: Reports

The Taliban prepared to formally announce the formation of a hardline Islamist government in Kabul on Friday, even as the threat of a slow-burning civil war loomed amid increasingly intense fighting between the militants and a fiercely anti-Taliban group in northern Afghanistan. Published September 3, 2021

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks to high level military officials in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (Nikolay Petrov/Pool Photo via AP)

Joint military drills spark fears of growing Russian sway in Belarus

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday dismissed Western concerns over his country's joint military exercises with Russia later this month, but the region remains tense amid signs of a growing security alliance between Moscow and an isolated and increasingly Kremlin-aligned Minsk. Published September 1, 2021

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi speaks during a press conference with his German counterpart Heiko Maas after their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, August 31, 2021. Maas arrived in Islamabad on two-day visit to hold talks with Pakistani leadership to discuss bilateral matters, international issues and the current situation in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Short-term gains: Pakistan a strategic winner with Taliban triumph — for now

The fall of Kabul to the Taliban -- a hard-line Islamist group created largely by Pakistani intelligence in the 1990s -- delivers what could be a major strategic victory for Pakistan, according to national security sources who say Islamabad has spent the past 20 years carefully playing both sides of the war in Afghanistan to protect its own interests. Published August 31, 2021