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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

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump-Kim nuclear summit praised, but big questions loom

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Singapore summit of President Trump and Kim Jong-un projected potent images of peace and diplomacy between two leaders who traded nuclear war threats just a year ago, but the output generated a large wave of initial skepticism that the U.S. side got any tangible or permanent concession from the North Korean dictator on Tuesday. Published June 12, 2018

The list of what it would take for the “complete denuclearization” of North Korea is long. North Korea has said it is willing to deal away its entire nuclear arsenal if the United States provides it with a reliable security assurance and other benefits. (Associated Press/File)

U.S. ready for North Korea nuclear crisis if talks fail

All signs may point to a successful and historic summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, but the stakes are so high that the U.S. national security community is braced for the possibility of a rapid spiral toward nuclear brinkmanship if the talks between the two men turn sour. Published June 10, 2018

FILE - In this May 9, 2018, file photo provided by the North Korean government, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a meeting at Workers' Party of Korea headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea. Ahead of a planned summit Tuesday, June 12,  in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean autocrat Kim Jong Un, there has been talk of complete denuclearization, North Korea has shut down (for now) its nuclear test site, and senior U.S. and North Korean officials have shuttled between Pyongyang and Washington for meetings with Kim and Trump. The top U.S. diplomat declared that “Chairman Kim shares the objectives with the American people” amid talk of a grand bargain that could see North Korean disarmament met with a massive influx of outside aid. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Nukes part of N. Korea’s ‘national identity,’ former CIA official warns

A former high-level CIA official focused on North Korea offered a dim assessment Friday of the likelihood Kim Jong-un is serious about abandoning his nuclear program -- asserting that Washington must remain sober in its analysis of the North Korean leader's motives as President Trump heads into a major summit with him next week. Published June 8, 2018

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Critics fear foreign government favors to Trump businesses have become business as usual. Ethics watchdogs say apparent quid-pro-quo deals are not being stopped by a Republican-led Congress or the courts. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China steps up business with Iran after Trump exits nuclear deal

China's adeptness at doing business with Iran through state-owned companies not exposed to the American financial systems could make Beijing the big beneficiary of President Trump's move to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on foreign companies doing business with Tehran. Published June 7, 2018

Iranian women attend an anti-U.S. gathering after the Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 11, 2018. Thousands of Iranians took to the streets in cities across the country to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the nuclear deal with world powers. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Obama officials lament GOP report on Iran nuclear deal

Republicans lauded a new Senate investigative report Wednesday that revealed how the Obama administration secretly sought to connect Iran with American banks despite repeatedly assuring Congress that Tehran would not be given access to the U.S. financial system under the 2015 nuclear deal. But for their part, Obama administration alumni said the claims were "wildly overblown." Published June 6, 2018

President Obama wanted the Iran nuclear accord so badly that he offered to give Iran access to American banks, an investigation found. (Associated Press)

Obama hid efforts to aid Iran’s windfall

The Obama administration -- despite repeatedly assuring Congress that Iran would remain barred from the U.S. financial system -- secretly mobilized to give Tehran access to American banks to convert the windfall of cash it received from sanctions relief under the 2015 nuclear deal into dollars, an investigative report by the Senate has revealed. Published June 6, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took aim at Venezuela's increasingly authoritarian government on Monday, calling on countries in the Western Hemisphere to step up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro at a meeting of the Organization of American States. (Associated Press)

Mike Pompeo calls on OAS to kick out Venezuela

The U.S. and Venezuela traded barbs at the annual Organization of American States summit in Washington on Monday, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging the hemispheric body to suspend Caracas' membership and support increased economic sanctions against socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Published June 4, 2018

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a keynote address at the opening dinner of the 17th IISS Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual defense and security forum in Asia, held in Singapore, Friday, June 1, 2018, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Yong Teck Lim)

U.S. watching closely as India in balancing act with China

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has walked a careful line this week toward China, asserting that Delhi and Beijing must "work together" even as he announced a plan supported by the U.S. to develop a new Indian naval port in Indonesia aimed at countering China's growing military and economic prowess. Published June 1, 2018

In this March 27, 2016, file photo, Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr gives a speech to his followers before entering the highly fortified Green Zone, in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Sadr, the influential maverick Shiite cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

Muqtada al-Sadr’s threat to oust U.S. forces reawakens old fears

Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose party finished first in Iraq's national elections last year, is calling the U.S. military an "invader," raising fresh concerns that the Pentagon may face another demand to leave the country before the military mission against Islamic State and other jihadi groups is complete. Published May 30, 2018

Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, with the MORENA party, speaks to supporters during his campaign rally in Tlalpanin, in Mexico City, Thursday, May 24, 2018. Mexico will hold general elections on July 1. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Andres Lopez Obrador widens lead in Mexican presidential race

Leftist presidential candidate Andres Lopez Obrador has widened his already significant lead over the field with just a month to go before voting commences in Mexico's July 1 election -- a contest experts say could have major consequences for the Trump administration's NAFTA talks and U.S.-Mexico relations overall. Published May 30, 2018

In this photo provided by the Iraqi government, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, right, and Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr hold a press conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, early Sunday, May 20, 2018. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose coalition won the largest number of seats in Iraq's parliamentary elections, says the next government will be "inclusive." The May 12 vote did not produce a single bloc with a majority, raising the prospect of weeks or even months of negotiations to agree on a government. (Iraqi Government via AP) **FILE**

Muqtada al-Sadr, Shia cleric, calls U.S. an ‘invader country’ in Iraq

Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose party finished first in Iraq's national elections last year, is calling the U.S. military an "invader," raising fresh concerns that the Pentagon may face another demand to leave the country before the military mission against Islamic State and other jihadi groups is complete. Published May 30, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo releases the annual U.S. assessment of religious freedom around the world, at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, May 29, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pompeo to host religious freedom summit at State Department

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put a spotlight on the Trump administration's push to bolster religious freedom around the world Tuesday, calling it the "most fundamental of human rights" and declaring that "the United States will not stand by as spectators" while people are persecuted over faith. Published May 29, 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab during their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Monday, April 16, 2018. (Naohiko Hatta/Pool Photo via AP)

China claims no ‘clue’ of sonic attack on U.S. consulate

Chinese officials say they've probed reports of an American government employee experiencing mysterious sensations from sound and pressure at a U.S. diplomatic facility in China but found nothing to back up the claim. Published May 25, 2018

In this May 22, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump welcomes South Korean President Moon Jae-in to the White House in Washington. Ahead of a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump’s focus has been on stagecraft, the untiring will- they-won’t-they drama, and prospects for a legacy-defining nuclear deal. The human rights woes of North Koreans have been more of an afterthought.(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Moon scrambles to halt meltdown in North Korea diplomacy

South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged President Trump and Kim Jong Un to quickly find a way to talk directly in hopes of avoiding a total meltdown in diplomacy or a military clash Thursday, hours after Mr. Trump canceled his planned summit with the North Korean leader amid hostile posturing from Pyongyang. Published May 24, 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets head of the International Olympic Committee's ethics commission and former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, May 15, 2018. (Thomas Peter/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

China ‘will be key’ to Donald Trump’s way forward on North Korea

President Trump's cancellation of the summit with Kim Jong-un amid hostile posturing from North Korea sets the stage for a new wave of brinkmanship and a dramatic expansion of the administration's "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign against Pyongyang. Published May 24, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pompeo dodges Dem grilling over report on Trump’s cellphone security

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dodged questions Wednesday about whether he's concerned President Trump may be making regular use of a cellphone that lacks top-level security features to protect his personal calls and tweeting from hackers and foreign surveillance. Published May 23, 2018

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro arrives to the government-controlled National Electoral Council to be officially declared the winner of the presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Mike Pompeo vows reciprocal action to Venezuelan expulsion of U.S. diplomats

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday the Trump administration is preparing to "respond reciprocally" to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who kicked out the top two U.S. diplomats in Caracas Tuesday on allegations they tried to sabotage the presidential election there last weekend. Published May 23, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo waits to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Mike Pompeo says ‘bad deal not an option’ with North Korea

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said North Korean denuclearization is the "top national security priority," but the Trump administration is also focused on "appropriate countermeasures" to anticipated Russian meddling in the 2018 midterms, knuckling down against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's power grab in Caracas and much, much more. Published May 23, 2018