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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

Indian paramilitary soldiers keep guard outside the main telephone exchange building in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. The Indian government stripped the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir of its limited autonomy on Aug. 5. Authorities imposed a sweeping military curfew that's still in place, and cut off residents from all communication and the internet. Mobile phone services have yet to be restored. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Harsh Vardhan Shringla blasts Kashmir ‘disinformation’ from Pakistan

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Pakistani charges that India has conducted a militarized takeover of Kashmir and jailed thousands of political prisoners are "completely wrong" and designed to undermine New Delhi's attempts to bring economic prosperity to the disputed territory, India's top diplomat in Washington said Thursday. Published September 5, 2019

In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, photo, workers walk in the Nihran Bin Omar field north near Basra, Iraq. An Iraqi oil official says employees of energy giant Exxon Mobil have started evacuating an oil field in the southern province of Basra, amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran. The first group left two days ago and another batch left early Saturday, May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) **FILE**

U.S. to pay up to $15 million for info on oil smuggling by Iranian military

The Trump administration announced Wednesday the U.S. government will pay up to $15 million in reward money to anyone offering information leading to the disruption of "financial operations" of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and its elite Quds Force. Published September 4, 2019

This image taken from the Twitter account of President Donald J. Trump, @realDonaldTrump, shows an undated photo of the aftermath of an explosion at Iran's Imam Khomeini Space Center in the country's Semnan province. The explosion Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, left the smoldering remains of a rocket on a launch pad at the center, which was to conduct a U.S.-criticized satellite launch. In his tweet Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, Trump wrote: "The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir SLV Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran. I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One." (Donald J. Trump Twitter account via AP)

Iran’s allies reach out as U.S. levels new round of sanctions

The Trump administration leveled sanctions against Iran's space agency for the first time Tuesday, elevating its pressure campaign against the Islamic republic at a moment when other powers were offering Tehran a possible lifeline to evade U.S. restrictions on Iranian oil exports. Published September 3, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, speaks to reporters during a bilateral meeting at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump fumes as France, Germany reject ISIS captives

The Trump administration's push for allies to take custody of foreign-born Islamic State fighters held in makeshift prisons in Syria is yielding only limited results, fueling mounting anger in Washington in the effort to secure long-term defeat of the terror group. Published August 27, 2019

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Iran-made Bavar-373 air-defense missile system is seen after being unveiled by President Hassan Rouhani, Iran, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. Iran says the Bavar-373 is a long-range surface-to-air missile system able to recognize up to 100 targets at a same time and confront them with six different weapons. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran rolls out homemade missile defense system

Iran rolled out what officials there described as long-range, surface-to-air missile defense system Thursday -- a homegrown platform the Islamic Republic claims to have built since international sanctions blocked it from purchasing a similar system from Russia. Published August 22, 2019

South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul, right, and U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun, left, talk during their meeting at a government complex in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019. The United States is ready to restart nuclear negotiations with North Korea, a senior U.S. diplomat said Wednesday, a day after U.S. and South Korean militaries ended their regular drills that North Korea calls an invasion rehearsal. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Stephen Biegun North Korea nuclear negotiation aims for working level talks

President Trump's top envoy for North Korea sought to kick-start stalled nuclear talks with Pyongyang on Wednesday, asserting during a visit to South Korea that the U.S. is eager to meet with officials of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's regime and is just waiting for a response. Published August 21, 2019

Damaged Dubai City wedding hall is seen after an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug.18, 2019.  A suicide-bomb blast ripped through a wedding party on a busy Saturday night. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

ISIS undercuts Donald Trump’s push for Afghan peace deal, troop withdrawal

An Islamic State suicide bombing that killed 63 people in Kabul has underscored Afghanistan's violent state even as the Trump administration nears a peace deal with the nation's other major militant group, the Taliban, that could take thousands of U.S. troops out of the country. Published August 19, 2019

The Iranian flag waves outside of the UN building that hosts the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, office inside in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran is at a crossroads. His administration is trying to decide whether to risk stoking international tensions even more by ending one of the last remaining components of the 2015 nuclear deal. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) **FILE**

IAEA blasted for lax oversight of Iran nuclear deal

The United Nations watchdog agency charged with examining Iran's compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal has failed to fulfill its mission and has operated in an opaque and politicized manner, according to a new report by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). Published August 19, 2019

Protesters shine laser pointers on the Government Headquarters complex in Hong Kong, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019. Heavy rain fell on tens of thousands of umbrella-toting protesters Sunday as they marched from a packed park and filled a major road in Hong Kong, where mass pro-democracy demonstrations have become a regular weekend activity over the summer. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Hong Kong protests rage on as U.S., China watch

Massive pro-democracy protests continued Sunday in Hong Kong, with more than 100,000 filling a central park and major avenues in the Chinese-ruled territory for an 11th consecutive weekend. Published August 18, 2019

People watch a TV news program reporting about North Korea's firing projectiles with a file image at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. South Korea's military said Friday North Korea fired more projectiles into the sea to extend a recent streak of weapons tests believed to be aimed at pressuring Washington and Seoul over slow nuclear diplomacy. The letters read on the top "North Korea, fired two unidentified projectiles." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

N. Korean missile tests fly in the face of Bolton warnings

North Korea launched more projectiles into the sea Friday, just days after U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton warned that Pyongyang's recent wave of short-range missile tests have violated long-standing U.N. Security Council resolutions banning such tests. Published August 16, 2019

Pakistani Kashmiris burn effigies of Indian leaders at a protest in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, capital of Pakistani Kashmir, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal) ** FILE **

Kashmir conflict: U.S. watches warily as Pakistan warns of Indian-led genocide

Tensions over India's imposition of a curfew and communications blackout in Kashmir escalated Thursday, with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warning that Indian forces could be on the verge of carrying out a major "ethnic cleansing" against Muslims in the disputed territory. Published August 15, 2019

Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Maiteeq is warning the U.S. against embracing rebel leader Khalifa Haftar, a former Libyan army colonel with alleged CIA ties. "I think President Trump may have gotten the wrong message from allies or advisers about Haftar," he said. "It is our government in Tripoli, not Haftar, that is the main ally of the U.S. as a force to fight terrorism in Libya and North Africa." (Associated Press)

Ahmed Omar Maiteeq of Libya warns Donald Trump of Khalifa Haftar

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: A top leader from Libya's internationally recognized government says the Trump administration should be doing more to exert American power and diplomatic influence toward ending his country's brutal and destabilizing civil war. Published August 13, 2019