Guy Taylor
Articles by Guy Taylor
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
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
Dissident group claims Iran uprising and crackdown much bigger than reported
An international Iranian dissident group says the recent protests in Iran, as well as the government's severe crackdown on demonstrators, have been much wider in scope than initially reported. Published November 26, 2019
South Korea-Japan tension undercuts U.S., emboldens China and North Korea
In an eleventh-hour reversal, South Korea's government said Friday that it would allow a key military intelligence sharing agreement with Japan to stay alive for another three months. Published November 21, 2019
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
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
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
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
Guyanese Attorney General Basil Williams says administration aims to use oil resources wisely
Will Guyana go boom or bust? Published November 11, 2019
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
Robert O’Brien: Donald Trump to pressure Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Russian S-400 missiles
National Security Adviser Robert C. O'Brien claimed Sunday that President Trump will personally pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to drop his country's purchase of Russian-made S-400 missiles when Mr. Erdogan visits the White House this week. Published November 10, 2019
Mark Milley, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman: U.S. troops in Afghanistan to stay ‘several more years’
U.S. forces won't be withdrawing from Afghanistan any time soon, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, who said Sunday the mission in America's longest war will likely "be ongoing into the future for several more years." Published November 10, 2019
Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump North Korea denuclearization talks stalled
Nuclear talks with North Korea have essentially stalled for nearly eight months and, with the 2020 election season fast approaching, time could be running out for one of President Trump's most ambitious foreign policy goals. Published November 7, 2019
Mike Pompeo gets personal on visit to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Germany this week to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall -- and on Thursday the trip got personal. Published November 7, 2019
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
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
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
Donald Trump Syria withdrawal ‘not only appropriate, but overdue,’ foreign policy ‘realists’ say
Some U.S. foreign policy "realists" are cheering on President Trump's recent course change in the Middle East, saying that despite its clumsy implementation, the move cuts through contradictions at the heart of the American policy and puts the onus of regional powers to resolve Syria's eight-year-civil war and prevent an Islamic State resurgence there. Published October 17, 2019
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
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