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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

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of an EU summit in Brussels, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. European Union gathered Sunday to seal an agreement on Britain's departure from the bloc next year, the first time a member country will have left the 28-nation bloc. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Theresa May confident on Brexit deal passing

British Prime Minister Theresa May expressed confidence Sunday that she'll be able to push the newly minted Brexit agreement through her nation's Parliament, despite heated opposition from U.K. lawmakers vowing to block the deal that took nearly two years to negotiate with the European Union. Published November 25, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gestures while speaking during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pompeo backs Trump on Saudi alliance: ‘Mean, nasty world out there’

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday bolstered President Trump's assertion that the U.S. will remain a close strategic ally of Saudi Arabia, despite the Saudi royal family being implicated in the murder of dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi. Published November 20, 2018

In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, photo, smoke from an explosion rises as part of the dismantling of a South Korean guard post in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas in Cheorwon, as a North Korean guard post sits high in the upper left. North Korea on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018, blown up some of its own frontline guard posts as part of agreements to ease tensions in its heavily fortified border with South Korea, Seoul’s Defense Ministry said. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

N. Korea destroys guard posts in DMZ

North Korea remains elusive on denuclearization, but on Tuesday showed its desire for a formal peace treaty with South Korea by destroying 10 guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the heavily armed no man's land that has divided North from South since the Korean war was frozen by an armistice in 1953. Published November 20, 2018

In this Nov. 9, 2017, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping participate in a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Mr. Xi had an "extremely positive" phone conversation with Mr. Trump about trade and other issues, the foreign ministry said Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. The two leaders agreed to "strengthen economic exchanges," said a ministry spokesman, Lu Kang. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Chinese media: U.S.-led ‘Quad’ is ‘doomed to fail’

Chinese Communist Party media is dismissing Washington's efforts to create a new financial and security alliance between the U.S., India, Japan and Australia aimed at countering China's desire for expanded economic and military influence across Asia. Published November 15, 2018

Army Special Forces candidates carry a log during a recent Special Forces Assessment and Selection class at Camp Mackall at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Photo courtesy of the Department of the Army) ** FILE **

First female soldier passes initial Army Special Forces tests

A female soldier has successfully completed the initial selection process to join U.S. Army Special Forces, marking the first time a woman has made the achievement since the Army began allowing women to pursue special operations jobs nearly three years ago. Published November 15, 2018

In this March 24, 2018, photo, Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tours an innovation gallery of Saudi Arabian technology, including an exhibit by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, during a visit to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. While some U.S. colleges rethink their ties to Saudi Arabia, many more have shown no signs of backing away. An Associated Press analysis of federal data finds that 38 schools received at least $359 million from the Saudi government from 2011 through 2017.  (Josh Reynolds/AP Images for KAUST)

Saudi reactor triggers fears of nuclear race with Iran

Saudi Arabia has begun work on its first nuclear research reactor, prompting fresh concern Riyadh will soon seek to develop nuclear weapons if Iran restarts its own weapons program amid Washington's reimposition of sanctions and withdrawal from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal. Published November 6, 2018

Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, attends the second day of Future Investment Initiative conference, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will address the summit on Wednesday, his first such comments since the killing earlier this month of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Saudis in ‘weakest diplomatic position since 9/11’

The murder of dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi has left Saudi Arabia in its "weakest diplomatic position since the horrific terror attacks of September 11," according to a top Saudi analyst in Washington known for his careful analysis of Middle East politics. Published November 2, 2018

This combination of two file photos shows U.S. President Donald Trump, left, speaking in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington on Feb. 26, 2018, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attending in the party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea on May 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Wong Maye-E, File)

Mike Pompeo plans talks to prepare new Donald Trump-Kim Jong-un summit

The Trump administration is pushing for a second summit between the president and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by early 2019, hoping to pump momentum into denuclearization talks that have produced few tangible results since the two leaders' first historic June summit in Singapore. Published November 1, 2018

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Benjamin Netanyahu Oman trip boosts Donald Trump Middle East strategy

President Trump's grand Middle East strategy to unite Israel with the Saudis and other Gulf Arab powers against Iran and lay the groundwork for a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is making unexpected progress away from the limelight. Published October 31, 2018

In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman addresses the Future Investment Initiative conference, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. The Crown Prince addressed the summit on Wednesday, his first such comments since the killing earlier this month of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Mohammed bin Salman condemns Jamal Khashoggi killing

Saudi Arabia's crown prince denounced the killing of Jamal Khashoggi as a "heinous crime" on Wednesday, breaking a three-week silence on the dissident writer's death just as Iran attacked its regional rival by claiming Riyadh thought it could get away with murder because of its close ties with the Trump administration. Published October 24, 2018