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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

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel walks with his followers after an anti-government protest in San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba, Sunday, July 11, 2021. Hundreds of demonstrators went out to the streets in several cities in Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffs, amid the new coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba’s untested president faces biggest challenge of post-Castro era

Pressure mounted on Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday to show he's capable of upholding the Castro legacy of authoritarian control over Cuba, a day after the biggest anti-regime protests in decades swept cities and towns across the island nation. Published July 12, 2021

Police search the Morne Calvaire district of Petion Ville for suspects who remain at large in the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, July 9, 2021. Moise was assassinated on July 7 after armed men attacked his private residence and gravely wounded his wife, first lady Martine Moise. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Police point to foreign hit squad as rumors swirl around Haitian president’s assassination

Police in Haiti say a hit squad of as many as 28 foreign mercenaries -- consisting mainly of Colombians but including at least two Haitian-Americans -- carried out the assassination of the country's president this week, although there were more questions than answers as a fast-paced international investigation continued to unfold on Friday. Published July 9, 2021

Maryam Rajav, acting president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. (Photo courtesy of Siavosh Hossein, The Media Express)

Exiled Iranians to seek regime’s overthrow with ‘World Summit’

Iranian dissident exile movements will hold an annual "World Summit" Saturday through Monday, with supporters at rallies in 105 countries coming together virtually to call for Iran's oppressive theocracy to be overthrown and replaced with a democracy. Published July 7, 2021

In this file photo, Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega speaks next to first lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo during the inauguration ceremony of a highway overpass in Managua, Nicaragua. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)

Nicaragua’s descent into dictatorship vexes Biden’s pro-democracy agenda

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is establishing a full-blown dictatorship, according to regional experts who warn the jailing of opposition figures and gunning down of protesters in the tiny Central American nation represents an outsized challenge for President Biden's pro-democracy agenda. Published July 3, 2021

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appears on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper, File)

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who served under three Republican presidents and led the Pentagon through the 9/11 attacks, the resulting U.S. military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the first years of America's global war on terrorism, died at the age of 88 on Wednesday. Published June 30, 2021

In this Aug. 30, 2018, file photo, a new citizens holds an American flag and passport during a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Kendall Field Office in Miami.  (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) **FILE**

Biden administration eases gender requirements on U.S. passports

The State Department said Wednesday it will no longer require Americans to provide medical documentation proving their gender on passport applications, paving the way for individuals to choose a gender they self-identify with regardless of what their birth certificate or hospital records indicate. Published June 30, 2021

In this file photo, a Colonial Pipeline station is seen, Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Smyrna, Ga., near Atlanta.  (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Fear of doomsday cyberattack yields truce between feds and private sector

The recent surge of cyberattacks has triggered a blame game between private industry and federal agencies over who truly bears responsibility for ensuring such incidents don't cripple critical infrastructure for things like fuel, electricity and water supplies and cause massive damage to the economy. Published June 29, 2021

President Joe Biden, right, meets with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden vows to back Afghan leaders as U.S. pullout accelerates

President Biden hosted Afghanistan's president and top peace negotiator at the White House Friday, vowing to maintain U.S. support for the embattled Kabul government even as the last American and NATO troops leave and fears mount of a major Taliban offensive. Published June 25, 2021

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, June 18, 2021. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Biden administration offers to meet North Koreans ‘anytime, without preconditions’

The Biden administration is eager to meet with North Korean officials "anywhere, anytime without preconditions," a top U.S. diplomat said on a visit to South Korea Monday, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signaled that his regime is preparing for dialogue or confrontation -- but more for confrontation -- with Washington. Published June 21, 2021

In this March 10, 2011, file photo, then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. Central and Eastern European nations are anxious about the Wednesday, June 16, 2021, summit meeting between now-U.S. President Biden and Putin, wary of what they see as hostile intentions from the Kremlin. (RIA Novostia/Alexei Druzhinin/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

China’s rise colors Biden-Putin summit

President Biden's high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to be dominated by friction over everything from Russia-linked cyberattacks and election interference to human rights abuses and what U.S. officials see as a meddlesome Kremlin foreign policy aimed at undermining efforts to promote stability and democracy around the world. Published June 14, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive on Air Force One at Cornwall Airport Newquay, near Newquay, England, ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall, early Thursday, June 10, 2021. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden to stress strengthening alliances before fraught Putin summit

President Biden arrived in England on Wednesday for his first foreign trip, telling U.S. troops at an air base that he's on a mission to reinforce alliances with the world's leading democracies before his showdown next week with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Published June 9, 2021

President Joe Biden salutes as he boards Air Force One upon departure, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Biden is embarking on the first overseas trip of his term, and is eager to reassert the United States on the world stage, steadying European allies deeply shaken by his predecessor and pushing democracy as the only bulwark to the rising forces of authoritarianism. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Full agenda, alliance repair top Biden’s Europe to-do list

President Biden embarked on his first foreign trip Wednesday hoping to revamp transatlantic ties, forge a vaccine strategy for the COVID-19 fight and unite the world's most economically advanced democracies to fight Russian and Chinese geopolitical provocations and a rising menace in cyberspace. Published June 9, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a meeting with the foreign ministers of Mexico and Central American Integration System (SICA) member states at Intercontinental Hotel Costa Rica,  in San Jose, Costa Rica, Tuesday,  June 1, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Blinken pressed on alleged Soros link to U.S. moves in Balkans

A key Republican on Capitol Hill grilled Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday for an explanation of why the State Department has not produced evidence to back up its corruption allegations against former Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, a one-time high-profile ally of U.S. efforts to promote democracy in the Balkans. Published June 7, 2021