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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

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to U.S. President Donald Trump during a press conference after the meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Vladimir Putin uses impeachment to exacerbate rifts in U.S.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is exploiting political divisions around the impeachment in Washington with the goal of driving a sharp new wedge between the U.S. and Ukraine, the energy-rich former Soviet republic that Moscow has long sought to control. Published December 4, 2019

Cars block a street during a protest against a rise in gasoline prices, in the central city of Isfahan, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. Demonstrators angered by a 50% increase in government-set gasoline prices blocked traffic in major cities and occasionally clashed with police Saturday after a night of demonstrations punctuated by gunfire. (AP Photo)

Mike Pompeo backs Iran uprising despite crackdown

Violent protests against the government rocking more than 100 Iranian cities in recent weeks, coupled with Washington's rising economic and military pressure against Tehran, appear to be shaking the Islamic republic's leaders at a level not seen in years. Published November 26, 2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a large delegation of African leaders this month for a summit in Sochi, pitching Russia's potential value as a source of aid and weaponry. (Associated Press/File)

Russia uses Syria tactics in Libya power play

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Russia's role in helping President Bashar Assad secure victory in Syria's civil war has emboldened Moscow to expand its operations into Libya with the goal of supplanting American and other Western influence there, the top security official in Tripoli's U.N.-backed government warned in an interview. Published November 17, 2019

Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Leaders Dialogue with BRICS Business Council and the New Development Bank, at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. (AP Photo /Eraldo Peres)

Top Libyan minister warns of rising Russian infiltration in civil war

Russia's role in helping President Bashar Assad secure victory in Syria's civil war has emboldened Moscow to expand its operations into Libya with the goal of supplanting American and Western influence there, the top security official in Tripoli's U.N.-backed government warned in an interview. Published November 17, 2019

"China's repressive campaign in Xinjiang is not about terrorism," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. "[It's] about China's attempt to erase its own citizens' Muslim faith and culture." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Turkistan rights group claims far larger Chinese detention gulag

The Chinese government is operating more than 250 suspected concentration and labor camps to detain Muslims in the nation's northwest, according to a new satellite imagery analysis released Tuesday by a U.S.-based human rights group. Published November 12, 2019

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., followed by Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., walks out to talk to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, about the House impeachment inquiry. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

New complaint filed against impeachment whistleblower

A new complaint from within the U.S. intelligence community alleges the whistleblower who launched the impeachment effort against President Trump is violating federal law by soliciting donations -- $227,000 and counting, with some coming in anonymously -- on a GoFundMe page. Published November 12, 2019

U.S. and South Korean officials held a strategy meeting during the 2019 Moscow Nonproliferation Conference to discuss ways to renew talks between the U.S. and North Korea that broke down last month. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Signs point to renewed talks between U.S., North Korea

There was no substantial meeting between U.S. and North Korean officials at a key nuclear nonproliferation conference in Moscow over the weekend, but signs are emerging that talks between the two sides could resume in coming weeks. Published November 10, 2019

Demonstrators set fire to a rendition of the U.S. flag during a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. Reviving decades-old cries of "Death to America," Iran on Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the 1979 student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed as tensions remain high over the country's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran uranium enrichment doubled on embassy takeover anniversary

U.S.-Iran tensions escalated Monday as Tehran announced a doubling of its uranium enrichment activities in a calculated breach of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and the Trump administration leveled a slate of fresh sanctions targeting an inner circle of officials around Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Published November 4, 2019

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, reviews armed forces with Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, during a graduation ceremony at Iran's Air Defense Academy, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Khamenei, speaking at the academy, was quoted as saying that U.S. and Western intelligence services "are making chaos" in the region. He urged Iraq and Lebanon to prioritize national security and respect for law while also saying the protesters' demands are "right." (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

U.S. hits Iranian supreme leader’s inner circle with sanctions

The Trump administration announced sanctions against 10 officials from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's inner circle on Monday, ramping up pressure against the Islamic republic on the 40th anniversary of its seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Published November 4, 2019

Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League,  in New York, Monday, April 29, 2019.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Mohammed al-Issa warns U.S. on ending ISIS fight early

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: The death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a major victory against Islamist extremism, but the group's warped ideology -- one that has "distorted and tried to hijack Islam" -- remains very much alive and continues to prey on youths across the Mideast and beyond. Published October 30, 2019

Turkish tanks and troops stationed near Syrian town of Manbij, Syria, Tuesday. Oct. 15, 2019. Russia moved to fill the void left by the United States in northern Syria on Tuesday, deploying troops to keep apart advancing Syrian government and Turkish forces.(Ugur Can/DHA via AP)

Russian forces sweep into U.S. base abandoned in Syria

Russian forces began sweeping in to fill a security void left by withdrawing American troops in northern Syria on Tuesday, with Moscow-backed mercenaries taking control of a strategic former U.S. special operations outpost and Russian troops engaging in armored patrols as the new buffer between Turkish and Syrian armies. Published October 15, 2019

President Donald Trump bows his head down as they say their prayer at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Donald Trump’s Saudi Arabia deployment undercuts bid to end ‘forever wars’

President Trump has stoked his political base by touting the withdrawal of more than 1,000 U.S. troops from Syria as keeping his 2016 campaign promise to end American involvement in foreign "forever wars." The problem is that the Pentagon's near-simultaneous deployment of some 3,000 troops and advanced missiles to Saudi Arabia is likely to trigger an escalation with Iran that could undercut Mr. Trump's determination to get the U.S. military out Middle East entanglements. Published October 14, 2019