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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

State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said Thursday that U.S. officials are well aware of recent counterterrorism arrests and other steps being taken by Pakistan, but suggested the administration remains wary of Islamabad's commitment against such groups as JeM. (Associated Press)

India says it told Pakistan of Jaish-e-Muhammad terror camp before airstrikes

India gave specific information to Pakistani authorities on the location of a U.S.-designated terror group's training camp inside Pakistan well before Indian fighter jets bombed the camp last week, according to a high-level Indian official who says Islamabad flat-out ignored the information. Published March 7, 2019

In this Feb. 28, 2019, file photo, U.S President Donald Trump, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un take a walk after their first meeting at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, in Hanoi, Vietnam. North Korea's state TV on Wednesday, March 6, 2019, has aired a documentary glorifying leader Kim's recent visit to Vietnam that omitted the failed nuclear negotiations with Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump questions North Korea restored rocket site report

President Trump responded cautiously Wednesday to a report that North Korea is restoring a long-range rocket launch site it had promised to dismantle, as the high-stakes nuclear diplomacy with Pyongyang struggled to keep its momentum. Published March 6, 2019

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (right) met with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday for private talks on a range of subjects, including "ways to improve cooperation on regional security and counterterrorism," according to the State Department. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

China rivalry hovers over Mike Pompeo’s Manila stop

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met in Manila Thursday with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to boost a key Southeast Asian treaty ally at a moment of increased concern over expanding Chinese military might and economic maneuvering in the region. Published February 28, 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un waves upon arrival by train in Dong Dang in Vietnamese border town Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, ahead of his second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Minh Hoang)

N. Korea state media quiet as Kim Jong-un makes splash in Hanoi

Kim Jong-un's arrival here Tuesday grabbed global attention, with pundits from Sydney to Stockholm weighing in on everything from his coifed haircut to the cigarettes he smokes to the big question of whether he'll give up his nuclear weapons. Published February 26, 2019

Kim Jong-nam was fatally poisoned in 2017 at airport. Pyongyang was accused of recruiting a Vietnamese woman to assassinate him. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Kim Jong-un has fences to mend during Vietnam summit

HANOI, Vietnam| Kim Jong-un's summit with President Trump is the main event, but insiders say the North Korean leader has an "ulterior motive" — smoothing ruffled feathers in Hanoi after Pyongyang in 2017 was accused of recruiting a Vietnamese woman to assassinate Mr. Kim's half-brother in Malaysia. Published February 25, 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (right) will be meeting with President Trump this week for denuclearization talks, but it’s Kim Yong-chol (background) who has prevented concrete action since their first summit in Singapore in June. (Associated Press)

Kim Yong-chol, Kim Jong-Un aide, aims to outwit Trump negotiators

Kim Yong-chol, Pyongyang's former intelligence chief, has emerges as a central player in the drama set to unfold when President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for a critical second summit to try to ease the nuclear standoff on the divided Korean Peninsula. Published February 24, 2019

A group of suspected al Qaeda militants accused in the killing of an army general in a suicide bombing stand trial at a state security court in Sanaa, Yemen, in this April 22, 2014 file photo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Iran-al Qaeda alliance may provide legal rationale for U.S. military strikes

Iran is providing high-level al Qaeda operatives with a clandestine sanctuary to funnel fighters, money and weapons across the Middle East, according to Trump administration officials who warn that the long-elusive, complex relationship between two avowed enemies of America has evolved into an unacceptable global security threat. Published February 18, 2019

In this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas. Cheney says the Senate should not only confirm CIA nominee Gina Haspel, but should restart the spy agency's harsh detention and interrogation practices used on terror suspects after 9/11. Cheney told Fox Business on Thursday that if it were his call, he would have the program active and ready to be employed if needed.  (AP Photo/John Locher)

Dick Cheney calls on Trump to resist temptation for a bad deal with N. Korea

Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned in a major speech here Friday that the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "highly skilled at extracting concessions in exchange for nothing," and cautioned U.S. negotiators against "repeating past mistakes" as President Trump heads toward a second summit with Mr. Kim later this month. Published February 8, 2019

FILE - In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island in Singapore. While President Donald Trump waits in the wings, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019 for his fourth summit with China’s Xi Jinping, yet another nod to the leader Kim most needs to court as he tries to undermine support for international sanctions while giving up little, if any, ground on denuclearization. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

U.S. envoy goes to North Korea to prepare second Kim-Trump summit

The Trump administration's top envoy on the Korean nuclear crisis will meet Wednesday with his counterpart in Pyongyang in preparation for the impending second summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Published February 5, 2019

In this July 16, 2018, file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, looks over towards U.S. President Donald Trump, left, as Trump speaks during their joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland. Merkel and Putin will meet on Saturday in the German government's guesthouse Meseberg, north of Berlin, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. The topics will include the civil war in Syria, the conflict in Ukraine, and energy questions. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)

Donald Trump wins Republican, NATO support for INF treaty end

With last-ditch diplomatic attempts so far failing to resolve disputes over the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the Trump administration is expected to stick to the Feb. 2 deadline for withdrawing if Russia refuses to come into compliance. Published January 30, 2019

Although the Taliban continue attacks in Afghanistan, U.S. diplomats express optimism about reaching a comprehensive agreement to end the 18-year-old war and bring American troops home within 18 months. (Associated Press)

Ryan Crocker: Donald Trump negotiating U.S. ‘surrender’ in Afghanistan

A former high-level U.S. diplomat who held key ambassador posts in the Clinton, Bush and Obama eras is slamming the Trump administration's handling of talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying they've "delegitimized" the Afghan government and amount to a U.S. "surrender." Published January 30, 2019