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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. and South Korean officials held a strategy meeting during the 2019 Moscow Nonproliferation Conference to discuss ways to renew talks between the U.S. and North Korea that broke down last month. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Signs point to renewed talks between U.S., North Korea

There was no substantial meeting between U.S. and North Korean officials at a key nuclear nonproliferation conference in Moscow over the weekend, but signs are emerging that talks between the two sides could resume in coming weeks. Published November 10, 2019

Demonstrators set fire to a rendition of the U.S. flag during a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. Reviving decades-old cries of "Death to America," Iran on Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the 1979 student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed as tensions remain high over the country's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran uranium enrichment doubled on embassy takeover anniversary

U.S.-Iran tensions escalated Monday as Tehran announced a doubling of its uranium enrichment activities in a calculated breach of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and the Trump administration leveled a slate of fresh sanctions targeting an inner circle of officials around Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Published November 4, 2019

In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, reviews armed forces with Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, during a graduation ceremony at Iran's Air Defense Academy, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Khamenei, speaking at the academy, was quoted as saying that U.S. and Western intelligence services "are making chaos" in the region. He urged Iraq and Lebanon to prioritize national security and respect for law while also saying the protesters' demands are "right." (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

U.S. hits Iranian supreme leader’s inner circle with sanctions

The Trump administration announced sanctions against 10 officials from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's inner circle on Monday, ramping up pressure against the Islamic republic on the 40th anniversary of its seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Published November 4, 2019

Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League,  in New York, Monday, April 29, 2019.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Mohammed al-Issa warns U.S. on ending ISIS fight early

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: The death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a major victory against Islamist extremism, but the group's warped ideology -- one that has "distorted and tried to hijack Islam" -- remains very much alive and continues to prey on youths across the Mideast and beyond. Published October 30, 2019

Turkish tanks and troops stationed near Syrian town of Manbij, Syria, Tuesday. Oct. 15, 2019. Russia moved to fill the void left by the United States in northern Syria on Tuesday, deploying troops to keep apart advancing Syrian government and Turkish forces.(Ugur Can/DHA via AP)

Russian forces sweep into U.S. base abandoned in Syria

Russian forces began sweeping in to fill a security void left by withdrawing American troops in northern Syria on Tuesday, with Moscow-backed mercenaries taking control of a strategic former U.S. special operations outpost and Russian troops engaging in armored patrols as the new buffer between Turkish and Syrian armies. Published October 15, 2019

President Donald Trump bows his head down as they say their prayer at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Donald Trump’s Saudi Arabia deployment undercuts bid to end ‘forever wars’

President Trump has stoked his political base by touting the withdrawal of more than 1,000 U.S. troops from Syria as keeping his 2016 campaign promise to end American involvement in foreign "forever wars." The problem is that the Pentagon's near-simultaneous deployment of some 3,000 troops and advanced missiles to Saudi Arabia is likely to trigger an escalation with Iran that could undercut Mr. Trump's determination to get the U.S. military out Middle East entanglements. Published October 14, 2019

In this Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, file photo, made from a video broadcast on the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya satellite news channel, smoke from a fire at the Abqaiq oil processing facility fills the skyline, in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia took journalists on Friday to the site of a missile-and-drone strike on the kingdom’s oil industry that shook global energy markets over the weekend. (Al-Arabiya via AP, File)

U.S. deploying 3,000 troops, advanced equipment to Saudi Arabia

The U.S. military is significantly increasing troop deployments to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said Friday, announcing that 3,000 American personnel -- including two fighter squadrons and an air expeditionary wing -- will be sent to the Persian Gulf nation, as well as advanced missile defense systems. Published October 11, 2019

Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces, SDF, march during a demonstration against possible Turkish military operation in their areas in Al-Qahtaniya, Syria, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. Syria's Kurds accused the U.S. of turning its back on its allies and risking gains made in the fight against the Islamic State group as American troops began pulling back on Monday from positions in northeastern Syria ahead of an expected Turkish assault. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

ISIS fighter release from prison feared after Trump Syria move

President Trump's decision to pull American forces from key posts in Syria set U.S. counterterrorism officials on edge Monday amid concern that the move will lead to the headlong release of thousands of hardened Islamic State fighters from makeshift prison camps there. Published October 7, 2019

In this June 30, 2019, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone.  North Korea's chief negotiator says discussions with the U.S. on Pyongyang's nuclear program have broken down, but Washington says the two sides had "good discussions" that it intends to build on in two weeks. The North Korean negotiator, Kim Miyong-gil, said Saturday, Oct. 5, talks in Stockholm broke down "entirely because the U.S. has not discarded its old stance and attitude."  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

U.S. calls for patience as N. Korea claims new talks ‘broke down’ already

The much-anticipated resumption of stalled nuclear negotiations with North Korea got off to a rocky start Saturday, with Pyongyang saying talks had collapsed within hours, while U.S. officials claimed there were "good discussions" and expressed hope for another round later this month. Published October 5, 2019

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets the media in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Italy at the start of a four-nation tour of Europe as the push to impeach President Donald Trump gains steam at home. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Mike Pompeo, State Department under scrutiny in Trump-Ukraine furor

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came to Foggy Bottom last year vowing to get the State Department "its swagger back," a motto that was music to the ears of career diplomats after the plunging morale that had gripped the department during the brief tenure of President Trump's first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. Published October 3, 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's demand that President Trump and the U.S. deliver sweeping sanctions relief in exchange for only a partial dismantling of his nuclear arsenal forced February's Hanoi talks to collapse. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

U.S., North Korea weigh strategy as talks resume

U.S. negotiators will push their North Korean counterparts for concrete steps toward denuclearization in exchange for limited counter steps by Washington when the two sides meet this weekend for their first working-level talks since February's failed Hanoi summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Published October 1, 2019