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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

A March 1992 photo of U.S. President George Bush. (AP Photo)

George H.W. Bush remembered as international statesman, coalition builder

It was the swiftness and ease with which he operated on the global stage that cemented President George Herbert Walker Bush's legacy as a great leader who not only protected and advanced America's interests around the world, but did it in a delicate, nuanced way respected by other powers and future allies. Published December 2, 2018

Brian Hook, U.S. special representative for Iran, walks past fragments of Iranian short range ballistic missiles (Qiam) at the Iranian Materiel Display (IMD) at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, in Washington, Thursday Nov. 29, 2018. The Trump administration accused Iran of stepping up violations of a U.N. ban on arms exports by sending rockets and other weaponry to rebels in Afghanistan and Yemen. The presentation displays weapons and fragments of weapons seized in Afghanistan, Bahrain and Yemen that it said are evidence Iran is a "grave and escalating threat" that must be stopped.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. threatens Iran over illegal rocket exports

President Trump's point man on curbing Iranian aggression offered fresh evidence Thursday that Tehran is violating a United Nations ban on weapons exports by sending rockets and other military equipment to proxies around the Middle East, and warned that the U.S. is prepared to use force to curtail such activity. Published November 29, 2018

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, responds to reporters. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate vote to advance Yemen bill is rebuke to Donald Trump

The Senate leveled up one of its harshest rebukes to date of President Trump's foreign policy Wednesday, voting overwhelmingly to advance a resolution that could halt American support for Saudi Arabia's ongoing war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen. Published November 28, 2018

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, California Republican, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 7, 2016. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Republicans vying for key spot on House Foreign Affairs committee

House leaders are expected Thursday to resolve an internal GOP battle over who gets tapped as ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs committee -- an influential post that Republicans in the running say will be vital to protecting President Trump's foreign policy agenda when the House is under Democrat control. Published November 28, 2018

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the beginning of a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Russia-Ukraine Kerch Strait incident tests Donald Trump, U.S. power

Russian President Vladimir Putin is bent on testing American resolve around the world, with a brazen attack on three Ukrainian ships last weekend marking the latest in the former KGB spy's grand strategy to measure the strength of U.S. alliances and challenge the international democratic order. Published November 27, 2018

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of an EU summit in Brussels, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. European Union gathered Sunday to seal an agreement on Britain's departure from the bloc next year, the first time a member country will have left the 28-nation bloc. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Theresa May confident on Brexit deal passing

British Prime Minister Theresa May expressed confidence Sunday that she'll be able to push the newly minted Brexit agreement through her nation's Parliament, despite heated opposition from U.K. lawmakers vowing to block the deal that took nearly two years to negotiate with the European Union. Published November 25, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gestures while speaking during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pompeo backs Trump on Saudi alliance: ‘Mean, nasty world out there’

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday bolstered President Trump's assertion that the U.S. will remain a close strategic ally of Saudi Arabia, despite the Saudi royal family being implicated in the murder of dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi. Published November 20, 2018

In this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, photo, smoke from an explosion rises as part of the dismantling of a South Korean guard post in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas in Cheorwon, as a North Korean guard post sits high in the upper left. North Korea on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018, blown up some of its own frontline guard posts as part of agreements to ease tensions in its heavily fortified border with South Korea, Seoul’s Defense Ministry said. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

N. Korea destroys guard posts in DMZ

North Korea remains elusive on denuclearization, but on Tuesday showed its desire for a formal peace treaty with South Korea by destroying 10 guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the heavily armed no man's land that has divided North from South since the Korean war was frozen by an armistice in 1953. Published November 20, 2018

In this Nov. 9, 2017, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping participate in a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Mr. Xi had an "extremely positive" phone conversation with Mr. Trump about trade and other issues, the foreign ministry said Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. The two leaders agreed to "strengthen economic exchanges," said a ministry spokesman, Lu Kang. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Chinese media: U.S.-led ‘Quad’ is ‘doomed to fail’

Chinese Communist Party media is dismissing Washington's efforts to create a new financial and security alliance between the U.S., India, Japan and Australia aimed at countering China's desire for expanded economic and military influence across Asia. Published November 15, 2018