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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

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends meeting with medical staff as he visits a hospital which provides medical care to patients with COVID-19, in the town of Stolbtsy, 75 kilometers (46 miles) south-west of Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

Alexander Lukashenko clings to power in Belarus

Months of demonstrations calling for the ouster of longtime authoritarian strongman Alexander Lukashenko had raised hopes for a democratic uprising in Belarus, a country of roughly 10 million people located in the tense geopolitical battleground between Russia and the West. Published December 9, 2020

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends the 21st meeting of the Political Bureau of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, Nov. 29,  2020.  (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)  **FILE**

Thousands die in secret North Korea COVID camps: Report

South Korea cast fresh doubt over the weekend on North Korea's assertions that it has not recorded a single COVID-19, while reports swirled of tens of thousands dying in secret quarantine camps run by the ruling regime in Pyongyang. Published December 6, 2020

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends the 21st meeting of the Political Bureau of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, Nov. 29,  2020.  (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)  **FILE**

North Korean hackers hunting for COVID-19 vaccine secrets: Reports

North Korea is running an elaborate cyberespionage operation aimed at hacking companies developing COVID-19 treatments and vaccines, including the U.S. pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, according to sources involved in investigating the hacking attempts. Published December 3, 2020

As vice president, Joseph R. Biden visited Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. He called for intimate U.S. economic and trade integration with the emerging communist power. (Associated Press/File)

N. Korea defector: Biden should sanction China, Russia

One of the highest level defectors ever to flee North Korea's repressive regime said Wednesday that Trump-era economic pressure has weakened the North Korean economy and the next U.S. administration should double-down with so-called "secondary sanctions" to block Chinese and Russian support for the regime. Published December 2, 2020

In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry, military personnel stand near the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a scientist who was killed on Friday, during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. Fakhrizadeh founded Iran's military nuclear program two decades ago, and the Islamic Republic's defense minister vowed to continue the man's work "with more speed and more power." (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh killing alters Biden Iran relations path

Iran has vowed to retaliate for the assassination last week of one of its top nuclear scientists, but intelligence sources are questioning the notion that the incident will dramatically undermine presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden's plans for a major detente with Tehran next year. Published November 30, 2020

The Central Business District in Beijing gives the appearance of a global economic powerhouse, but China is exploiting its long-held classification as a ‘developing’ nation to benefit from international treaties, negotiations and commitments. (Associated Press photograph)

China ‘developing nation’ status exploits benefits on trade, carbon emissions

China's status as a "developing" nation in the eyes of multinational institutions and agreements gives Beijing a range of benefits, including less strict carbon emission standards and softer foreign trade rules, despite its emergence as an economic and military superpower challenging U.S. dominance in Asia and beyond. Published November 29, 2020

In this Sept. 29, 2013, file photo, a Pakistani man carrying a child rushes away from the site of a blast shortly after a car bomb exploded in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad, File)

Terror attack deaths down nearly 60% since 2014, survey finds

Here's one small reason for gratitude during the Thanksgiving season: Deaths caused by terrorist attacks around the world have fallen by more than half in just the last five years, declining again in 2019, according to an annual analysis released Wednesday by a prominent Australian think tank. Published November 25, 2020

A supporter of Iran backed militia holds a poster of Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, while others burning the building of Dijala local TV channel accusing it of broadcasting songs and dance on the holy Shiite day of Ashura in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Abu Muhammea al-Masri hit reveals Iran-al Qaeda links

The reported assassination of a top al Qaeda leader on the streets of Tehran has raised fresh questions about the murky relationship between Iran and the radical Sunni terror group, as well as about the depths of clandestine U.S. and Israeli operations aimed at destroying that relationship. Published November 17, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden speaks Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Joe Biden Cabinet candidates include Obama officials, never-Trumpers

It's become common wisdom in Washington that one of the first things presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden plans to do upon arriving at the White House is flush the Trump administration's "America First" doctrine down the drain -- but that the extent to which it actually happens is going depend upon the support team Mr. Biden chooses as his top foreign policy and national security advisers. Published November 11, 2020

"There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday when asked whether his department was preparing to engage with the Biden transition team. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Mike Pompeo foresees ‘a second Trump administration’

In his first public comments on the tight 2020 presidential race, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that he believes President Trump will emerge as the winner of last week's election when the votes are all counted, despite the multiple media calls that Democrat Joseph R. Biden has won the race. Published November 10, 2020