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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

In this file photo of Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010, Dr. Riek Machar, then-vice president of the Government of South Sudan, presides over an all-southern-parties meeting in Juba, Sudan South. Sudan's rebel leader Machar has fled the country, a spokesman for his party said Thursday, Aug. 18. 2016. (AP Photo/Pete Muller-file)

Riek Machar, South Sudan ex-vice president, flees; fragile peace deal in limbo

South Sudan's deposed vice president, now the leader of a rebel group fighting the government, has fled the East African nation, throwing the viability of the fledgling country further into doubt just a few years after it was touted as one of the Obama administration's top foreign policy triumphs. Published August 18, 2016

South Korean Army soldiers prepare to fire 105mm howitzers during an exercise in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. A medium-range ballistic missile fired Wednesday by North Korea flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) and landed near Japan's territorial waters, Seoul and Tokyo officials said, one of the longest flights by a North Korean missile.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

N. Korea fires mid-range missile close to Japan

A ballistic missile fired by North Korea landed in waters controlled by Japan on Wednesday, sparking an angry reaction from Tokyo, where military officials warned this week of the growing nuclear weapons threat from Pyongyang. Published August 3, 2016

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, lashing out Tuesday at Amnesty International said his government has "zero tolerance toward torture." (Associated Press)

Recep Erdogan, Turkey president, accuses U.S., EU allies of taking sides of coup plotters

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at the Obama administration and its European allies Tuesday, accusing the West of supporting terrorism and taking sides with coup plotters, and claiming that the attempted overthrow of his government by a portion of the military last month was scripted by foreign forces. Published August 2, 2016

Libyan security forces stand in front of the security headquarters, one showing his weapon with a Libyan flag, in the western city of Sabratha, Libya, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. American fighter-bombers struck an Islamic State militant training camp in rural Libya near Sabratha Friday, killing dozens. Serbian officials say two Serbian embassy staffers who had been held hostage since November are believed to have been killed in the airstrikes. Washington and its European allies are seeking to end the interminable divisions among Libyan factions to form a unity government that the West can support in fighting the jihadis. (AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)

U.S. launches airstrikes against ISIS in Libya

U.S. forces have begun a series of "precision airstrikes" against the Islamic State's main branch in Libya, the Pentagon said Monday, signaling an expansion of American military action against the group, whose footprint has spread into North Africa over the past year. Published August 1, 2016

The plate of the interphone shows the name of Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel outside the building where he lived in Nice, southern France, Saturday, July 16, 2016. The man responsible for turning a night of celebration into one of carnage in the seaside city of Nice was a petty criminal who hadn't been on the radar of French intelligence services before the attack. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

ISIS claims responsibility for Bastille Day attack in Nice

NICE, France -- The Islamic State claimed responsibility Saturday for the attack that killed at least 84 people in this southern French city, as authorities scrambled to determine whether attacker acted on an order from the terrorist group or may have been inspired by its extremist propaganda. Published July 16, 2016

A woman puts flowers near the scene where a truck mowed through revelers in Nice, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016. A large truck mowed through revelers gathered for Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, killing more than 80 people and sending people fleeing into the sea as it bore down for more than a mile along the Riviera city's famed waterfront promenade. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Nice reels as officials probe deadly Bastille Day truck terror attack

A blanket of shock, sadness and fear hung thick in the air here Friday, as residents and tourists struggled to comprehend the horror that left 84 people, including an American father and son, dead on Thursday night when a large truck mowed down crowds of Bastille Day revelers along the city's vast beachfront promenade. Published July 15, 2016

Forensic officers work at the scene of the truck attack that targeted Bastille Day revelers in Nice, France, on Friday. (Associated Press)

Truck crashes into Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France

France's national holiday turned bloody and violent Thursday night in the southern resort city of Nice, as a weapons-laden truck drove through crowds of Bastille Day revelers for more than a mile in an attack the French president labeled as terrorism. Published July 14, 2016

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2006 file photo, men stand at a graveyard where the dead of 1988 gas attack on Halabja, Iraq, by Saddam Hussein's regime were laid to rest. Donald Trump gives credit where credit isnt due when he brands Saddam Hussein a potent foil of terrorists. Iraqs dictator was responsible for gassing thousands of Kurdish civilians, using chemical weapons against Iran, invading Kuwait, crushing political dissent and giving money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers who terrorized Israelis. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed, File)

Iranian dissidents gather in Paris for massive rally

In the biggest gathering of its kind, thousands of Iranian dissidents -- and no shortage of former high-level American officials from both sides of the aisle -- will converge here Saturday for a giant rally calling for the downfall of Iran's theocratic government. Published July 7, 2016