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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 Sept. 21, 2021, file photo, President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

World gathers in full at U.N. after turbulent pandemic years

Russian President Vladimir Putin won't be there. But his invasion of Ukraine is expected to be a center-stage issue when more than 100 world leaders gather this month in New York for the biggest United Nations gathering since COVID-19 swept the globe in early 2020. Published September 10, 2022

Brazil's former president, who is running for reelection, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, appears in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 3, 2022, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, right, attends a meeting on June 9, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photos)  **FILE**

‘Trump of the tropics’ in tough battle for second term in Brazil

Tension in South America's biggest country is once again on a knife-edge ahead of Brazil's Oct. 2 presidential election, with the political cage match between maverick populist President Jair Bolsonaro and former President and leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva drawing comparisons to the bitter partisan divisions and chaotic aftermath of the 2020 presidential campaign in the United States. Published September 7, 2022

U.S. Army's Paladin self-propelled howitzers fires during a joint military exercise between South Korea and the United States at Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in Pocheon, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (Im Byung-shik/Yonhap via AP)

U.S. and South Korean forces wrap up biggest joint exercises in years

U.S. and South Korean military forces on Thursday concluded their most substantial "live-fire" joint exercises in years -- major drills featuring howitzer rounds slammed into a mountainside, swooping A-10 attack aircraft and Apache helicopters that Washington and Seoul had scaled back over the past half-decade for a range of reasons. Published September 1, 2022

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo answers after he delivering a speech during his four-day trip to Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Pompeo says China’s Xi senses ‘weakness’ emanating from White House

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: The U.S. should give Taiwan "every tool" it needs to block a Chinese takeover, according to former Secretary of State and potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate Mike Pompeo, who says an "absence of resolve" in President Biden's foreign policy has invited aggression from adversaries around the world. Published August 14, 2022

Thousands of Hindu devotees take spiritual-cleansing dips in the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati during the Kumbh Festival, in Allahabad, India, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. India's Hindu nationalist-led government is splurging on a religious megafest, spending unprecedented sums as part of a strategy to focus on the country's majority Hindu population ahead of a general election due this year. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

In the great Asian headcount, India about to steal a title from China

The Chinese government has been muted in its response to the United Nations' recent declaration that India -- Beijing's primary economic and military rival in the Indo-Pacific -- is on pace to surpass China next year as the world's most populous nation, a title that China has held for centuries. Published August 8, 2022

In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, July 23, 2022, Russian Army special forces soldiers are seen on a mission at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Hungarian diplomat pushes talks for swift end to Russia-Ukraine war

Hungary's top diplomat is calling for immediate talks to end the war in Ukraine, asserting that "all wars end up in negotiations" and that the world should be focused on how to achieve peace by quickly bringing about a cessation of the nearly five-month-old conflict. Published July 22, 2022

President Joe Biden arrives at the White House in Washington, Saturday, July 16, 2022, after returning from a trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden comes up empty-handed in Saudi Arabia, but marshals region against Iran

President Biden's ended an arduous four-day visit to the Middle East over the weekend without a major success to appease his liberal base, which has criticized him for pandering to oil-rich autocrats and walking back a campaign pledge to make a pariah of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Published July 17, 2022

Iran's national flag waves in Tehran, Iran, March 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran lashes out at Biden, accuses him of stoking tensions

Iran's hardline Islamist government on Sunday accused President Biden of stoking "Iranophobia" and provoking regional tensions on his Middle East tour that wrapped up over the weekend after visits to Saudi Arabia and Israel. Published July 17, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks to Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi on the sideline of the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. During a meeting in Ashgabat with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on the sidelines of the summit, Putin emphasized "strategic" ties between Moscow and Tehran. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Iran-Russia alliance grows as Biden heads to Mideast amid rising threats

President Biden's Mideast trip risks getting upstaged by Vladimir Putin, who is headed to the region directly after Mr. Biden for meetings in Iran -- a move the Kremlin announced a day after the Biden administration accused Tehran of supplying drones to aid Russia's war in Ukraine. Published July 12, 2022

China's President Xi Jinping delivers a speech after arriving for the upcoming handover anniversary by train in Hong Kong, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Xi has arrived in Hong Kong ahead of the 25th anniversary of the British handover and after a two-year transformation bringing the city more tightly under Communist Party control. (Selim Chtayti/Pool Photo via AP)

China lashes out against ‘Asian version of NATO’

The decision by NATO leaders for the first time to highlight the global security threat posed by China has triggered outrage in Beijing, where the Chinese foreign ministry on Thursday accused the Western military alliance of pushing a narrative that "distorts the truth" and "promotes confrontation" between the West and China. Published June 30, 2022