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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

Life proceeded as normal in Doha, Qatar, on Monday even as Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries severed ties, accusing the nation of supporting terrorist groups. (Associated Press)

Arab neighbors isolate Qatar over terror ties

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and two other Arab powers -- apparently emboldened by President Trump's recent visit to the region -- on Monday moved to diplomatically isolate the tiny, energy-rich Persian Gulf nation of Qatar over what they say are its ties to Iran and support for jihadi groups such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Published June 5, 2017

Pakistani Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said his country will have plenty of economic opportunity in coming years that could be at risk from violence in neighboring Afghanistan. (Associated Press/File)

Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s ambassador, awaits Trump’s Afghanistan policy

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Pakistan's military has swept terrorist groups from the nation's once-lawless tribal areas, but the gains could be put at risk if the security situation across the border in Afghanistan is not brought under control, Islamabad's diplomat in Washington said, stressing that his nation is waiting for the Trump administration to clarify its strategy for the Afghanistan conflict. Published June 4, 2017

Former CIA Director John O. Brennan said one of Russia's favorite spycraft tricks is to "suborn" agents to work for them, either wittingly or otherwise, and that the technique may have been part of the election hacking. (Associated Press)

Unknowing Russian conspirators in Congress, media more dangerous than partisan bickering

The extent to which Trump campaign officials and others across America's political landscape "unwittingly" aided Russia's efforts to wreak havoc on the 2016 election is an increasing focus of competing federal investigations into Moscow's alleged meddling, according to current and former officials familiar with the probes. Published June 1, 2017

Leftist Mexican politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a critic of President Trump, is running for office in the State of Mexico. (Associated Press)

Andres Obrador, Trump critic seeks boost in Mexico state election

The "Trump effect" at the ballot box will get a critical test this weekend -- in Mexico, where polling suggests the opposition party of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a sharp critic of the U.S. president, may capture a key state-level gubernatorial race and provide a dramatic boost for the leftist leader's chances in next year's presidential race. Published May 31, 2017

While Western authorities have been focused on jihadi attacks in places like Manchester, England, intelligence analysts warn that Islamic State may be taking advantage of largely lawless areas in Southeast Asia as terror staging grounds. (Associated Press)

ISIS moves into Southeast Asia

Western powers and media outlets convulsed in shock at last week's horrific suicide attack on a pop concert in Britain, but little attention was paid to a surge of violence by the Islamic State on the other side of the world -- specifically in the Philippines and Indonesia. Published May 28, 2017

Sky News on Wednesday aired two screengrabs of footage that police believe shows the Manchester bomber. British officials said a suspected U.S. leak jeopardized the police investigation. (Associated Press)

Manchester bomber ID leaks hurt U.S. credibility, hinder British investigation

Officials in Washington are scrambling to account for the leaked identity of Britain's deadliest suicide bomber in a decade after British authorities accused the United States of revealing the sensitive information -- the latest instance of unauthorized disclosures undermining American credibility around the world. Published May 24, 2017

A drone is paraded in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Associated Press/File)

North Korea attack drones can strike Seoul in 1 hour

North Korea's military has 300 to 400 attack drones capable of carrying biological and chemical weapons that could reach the South Korean capital of Seoul within one hour, according to a high-level defector from the isolated regime ruling Pyongyang. Published May 22, 2017

A demonstrator protests the presence of the U.S. military's Terminal High Altitude Areal Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in Seongju County south of Seoul. (Guy Taylor/The Washington Times)

South Korea THAAD protesters see U.S. militarism, not protection

The first protest signs come into view just down the road from where the U.S. military has positioned an anti-ballistic missile system in this rural hillside county about 150 miles south of the fortified border that divides the Korean Peninsula. Published May 22, 2017

President Trump met last week with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office. Legal analysts say the president is the one U.S. official with the authority to declassify nearly anything he wants, whenever he wants to do it. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s intelligence sharing with Russians overhyped in media, officials say

Some of America's top intelligence officials are expressing frustration at the wave of media hysteria that has greeted reports that President Trump may have shared sensitive intelligence with top Russian diplomats last week, with some saying a handful of news organizations are guilty of hyping what amounts to a nonstory. Published May 17, 2017

FILE - In this Saturday, April 15, 2017, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves during a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. North Korea has accused the U.S. and South Korean spy agencies of an unsuccessful assassination attempt on leader Kim Jong Un involving bio-chemical weapons. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File) **FILE**

Kim Jon-un claims he dodged a $100K U.S. death plot

North Korea's main secret police agency on Friday accused U.S. and South Korean intelligence agents of a failed but elaborate plot to assassinate the isolated nation's leader Kim Jong-un with "biochemical" and "nano poisonous substances." Published May 5, 2017

Iranian presidential candidates held a televised debate Friday. (Associated Press)

Obama nuclear deal on Iran presidential ballot

Iran's most famous hard-liner, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is off the ballot -- blocked by the ayatollahs who vet the Islamic republic's acceptable candidates, but the country's spirited presidential race is still shaping up to be a fierce battle over the nuclear deal with the Obama administration and its allies. Published May 1, 2017

At President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on April 7, he informed Chinese President Xi Jinping over a "beautiful" piece of chocolate cake that he had authorized airstrikes against Syria. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s foreign policy makes impact

It started with taking a protocol-shattering phone call from Taiwan. Then came an almost immediate realignment with Saudi Arabia against Iran, 59 Tomahawk missiles fired at Syria, an increasingly combative posture toward Russia, a massive military strike in Afghanistan and a level of North Korea brinkmanship not seen from U.S. administrations in decades. Published April 27, 2017

The flow of battle-hardened jihadis fleeing the black banners of the Islamic State in the face of the coalition onslaught in Syria and Iraq, seeking to rejoin their brothers in arms in al Qaeda, is already underway, a top national security analyst said. (Associated Press/File)

ISIS, al Qaeda in talks for terror merger

The Islamic State group and al Qaeda, long rivals for supremacy in the jihadi struggle, are feeling more pressure to combine as the Islamic State loses its territorial base in Syria and Iraq and the still-potent terrorist network founded by Osama bin Laden prepares to welcome legions of foreign fighters fleeing the advancing U.S.-backed coalition, analysts and officials in the region say. Published April 26, 2017

A U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane prepares to land at Osan Air Base in South Korea. South Korea's military said Tuesday that North Korea held major live-fire drills in an area around its eastern coastal town of Wonsan as it marked the anniversary of the founding of its military. (Associated Press)

Senate to meet for North Korea briefing at White House

President Trump's top security aides will host an unusual White House briefing on North Korea for the entire U.S. Senate on Wednesday amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and pressure on Washington to organize an effective response to Pyongyang's increasingly brazen military provocations and nuclear tests. Published April 25, 2017