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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

U.S. airmen prepare an MQ-9 Reaper for flight during exercise Combat Hammer, May 15, 2014, at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. (U.S. Air Force)

Britain’s MI6 provided crucial intel for Obama’s drone war in Yemen

Britain's secretive MI6 intelligence agency and fed the CIA with essential targeting information for the Obama administration's clandestine drone campaign against the Yemen-based terror group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to report published Thursday. Published April 7, 2016

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, prepares to participate in the afternoon plenary session of the Nuclear Security Summit, Friday, April 1, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Xi Jinping family, Communist Party implicated in Panama Papers leaks

Fallout from the Panama Papers global financial scandal widened Wednesday with the revelation that a number of current or former top Chinese Communist Party officials, including President Xi Jinping, reportedly have close relatives who have kept wealth in secretive offshore companies. Published April 6, 2016

FILE - This November 2005 file photo shows the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. As Ohio sought to justify its reasoning for shielding the names of people or companies providing lethal drugs to the prison system, it paid a security consultant who determined that identifying the suppliers would put them at risk of "harm, violence or unlawful acts of intimidation," according to newly released documents. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

Executions surging worldwide; China, Iran leading the way

The number of peopled executed by governments around the world surged in 2015, according to a report Wednesday by Amnesty International, which listed China, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia as leading the way with the death penalty. Published April 6, 2016

State Department Under Secretary for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon, Jr., testifies at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2016, on recent Iranian actions and implementation of the nuclear deal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama admin denies plan to open U.S. markets to Iran

Reports that the White House wants to open the U.S. financial system to Iran as a way to sweeten last summer's nuclear deal are "bogus," a top Obama administration official said Tuesday, telling lawmakers there simply are no plans to allow the Islamic republic access to U.S. dollars. Published April 5, 2016

Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson insisted Monday he would not resign after documents allege he used an offshore financial company as a tax haven. (Associated Press)

Panama Papers blowback rocks world capitals

A world of blowback descended on capitals from Moscow and Riyadh to Washington and Reykjavik Monday a day after the publication of the so-called "Panama Papers" exposed the offshore and potentially illegal financial dealings of dozens of wealthy, famous and powerful people around the world. Published April 4, 2016

Flare up: Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry announced a unilateral cease-fire Sunday against the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, but rebel forces said that they continued to come under fire. (Associated Press)

Azerbaijan, Armenia fight over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh territory

Clashes flared across the delicate frontline between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces Sunday, even after Azerbaijan attempted to declare a cease-fire in hopes of halting an outbreak of violence that has killed more than 30 soldiers and wounded scores of others since Saturday. Published April 3, 2016

Police guard a checkpoint during a raid in the suburb of Schaerbeek in Brussels early Friday. Six people were detained in late-night raids Thursday across the Belgian capital. (Associated Press)

Belgium ignored Turkey’s warnings on Brussels suicide bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui

Major security lapses in the days and weeks before Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Brussels grew all the more glaring Thursday with the revelation that Turkish authorities had twice deported one of the suicide bombers at the center of the carnage on suspicion that he was an Islamic State foreign fighter. Published March 24, 2016

Oil producers are forecast to keep flooding the market, pulling down prices despite growing demand in the U.S. and emerging markets. (Associated Press)

Saudi Arabia-Russia oil production freeze wouldn’t dent global oversupply

Global oil prices are projected to scrape along at $40 a barrel or less through 2016, continuing to hammer economies in Saudi Arabia, Russia and other nations -- and thus altering global politics -- despite the producers' efforts to limit output and counter the slump. Published March 24, 2016

As emergency workers sorted through the damaged terminal at the Brussels airport on Wednesday, Belgian authorities were searching for a top suspect in the country's deadliest attacks in decades. (Associated Press)

Brussels attacks raise fresh concerns about EU’s open borders

Belgian investigators on Wednesday were focused on a small cluster of city blocks as they scrambled to piece together the plot behind Tuesday's grisly terrorist attacks, but political and security fallout from the triple bombing is being felt across the Continent, where many are now questioning whether fundamental European values of openness and solidarity can survive. Published March 23, 2016

mourning: A crowd gathers at Place de la Bourse in the center of Brussels to hold a candlelight vigil for victims of the Tuesday bombings at the Zaventem Airport and one of the city's metro stations, where scores were killed and wounded. (Associated Press photographs)

Brussels terror attacks confirm Belgium’s fears after Salah Abdeslam arrest

There was a growing sense of fatalism among many here even before the first bomb went off, the first of three explosions detonated by suspected Islamic State suicide bombers at this city's main airport and central subway stop in less than an hour that left at least 34 dead and nearly 200 more -- including at least nine Americans -- wounded. Published March 22, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference, March 21, 2016, at the Verizon Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Israel support strong among presidential candidates

The Democratic and Republican presidential front-runners offered very different messages Monday in speeches before the annual gathering of America's most influential pro-Israel group, and both used the opportunity to lash out at each other. Published March 21, 2016

Secretary of State John F. Kerry. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

ISIS ‘genocide’ declaration doesn’t ensure U.S. will take action

Secretary of State John F. Kerry's declaration that the Islamic State is engaged in a genocide against Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq met with wide approval Thursday, but major questions loom over whether the designation will result in any serious move by the Obama administration to stop the carnage. Published March 17, 2016

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, New Hampshire Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

GOP senators push for new Iran sanctions after missile tests

A group of Republican senators are pushing new legislation that would require President Obama to impose a fresh slate of economic sanctions on Iran in response to the series of ballistic missile tests recently carried out by the Islamic Republic. Published March 17, 2016

The House of Representatives approved 393-0 a resolution declaring as "genocide" atrocities committed by the Islamic State against Christians, sending a strong signal to Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who has been deliberating for months. (Associated Press)

John Kerry to miss deadline on Christian genocide declaration

Secretary of State John F. Kerry will miss a deadline set by Congress for deciding whether atrocities carried out against Christians and other religious minorities by the Islamic State terror group in Syria and Iraq should be officially declared a "genocide." Published March 16, 2016

Ukraine’s progress slowed by ‘dirty money,’ simmering conflict

The U.S.-backed government in Ukraine is burdened by "dirty money and dirty politics" and its frozen conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the nation's east is "heating up again," the State Department's point woman for European policy warned Tuesday. Published March 15, 2016