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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

People hold signs during a protest at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jamal Khashoggi disappearance after Saudi Consulate visit creates diplomatic crisis

International intrigue deepened Wednesday over the disappearance of a prominent U.S.-based Saudi journalist after a visit last week to the Saudi Consulate in Turkey, as suspicions that he had been killed or kidnapped by a team of Saudi operatives threatened to spiral into a major diplomatic crisis. Published October 10, 2018

A woman walks past Saudi Arabia's consul's residence, in Istanbul, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. A Turkish television station has aired surveillance video of missing writer Jamal Khashoggi walking into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and a black van leaving later for the consul's home. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Jamal Khashoggi case: U.S. intel heard Saudis discussing plot against journalist

U.S. intelligence intercepted communications between Saudi officials discussing a plan to capture journalist Jamal Khashoggi prior to his disappearance last week in Turkey in a case now roiling international investigators and threatening to damage relations between Washington and Riyadh. Published October 10, 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Nikki Haley U.N. successor to take ‘America First’ to next level, diplomats say

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's surprise announcement to resign by the end of the year sent shock waves across Washington's foreign policy landscape Tuesday, triggering speculation that President Trump is gearing up for a new hard-line shift on international affairs as he heads toward his third year in office. Published October 9, 2018

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley addresses the United Nations Security Council, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Nikki Haley resigns as U.N. ambassador

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley resigned Tuesday in a meeting with President Trump, a surprise departure that will take place at the end of the year. Published October 9, 2018

Vice President Mike Pence, speaking Oct. 4 at the Hudson Institute in Washington, said China was using its power in "more proactive and coercive ways to interfere in the domestic policies and politics of the United States." (Associated Press)

Mike Pence warns of Chinese aggression ahead of midterms

Vice President Mike Pence sharply criticized Chinese interference in U.S. politics and increasing military aggression Thursday, leveling up a blistering rhetorical assault at a moment when Washington and Beijing are hardening the battle lines after months tension over tariffs and trade. Published October 4, 2018

Demonstrators hold national flags and a poster with an image of a protester who was killed during previous demonstrations, demanding better public services and jobs, in the southern city of Basra, Iraq, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. Masked gunmen shot dead Soad al-Ali, a human rights activist and mother of four, outside a supermarket in Basra on Tuesday, a brazen afternoon assassination that threatens to worsen tensions in the southern city wracked by violent protests. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani) ** FILE **

Iraqi official says U.S. wrong to blame Iran for rocket attacks on American consulate

A top Iraqi diplomat pushed back Wednesday against the Trump administration's assertion that Iran-backed militants have been responsible for attacks on the U.S. consulate in southern Iraq, saying recent insecurity in the city of Basra was caused purely by political demonstrations and "a normal expression of democracy." Published October 3, 2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Pompeo is heading back to North Korea for another round of talks aimed at getting Kim Jong Un to give up nuclear weapons. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Mike Pompeo to meet Kim Jong-un in North Korea

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Pyongyang this week to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, even as Pyongyang hardens its stance on denuclearization talks and South Korea's government warned that the Kim regime has as many as 60 nuclear weapons. Published October 2, 2018

In this July 6, 2018, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second from left, is greeted by North Korean Director of the United Front Department Kim Yong-chol, center, and North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho, second from right, as he arrives at Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea warned Washington through its state media Tuesday, Oct. 2, that a declaration ending the Korean War shouldn't be seen as a bargaining chip in denuclearization talks but suggested lifting sanctions might be. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

North Korean media silent on Mike Pompeo meeting in New York

Domestic political pressure on Kim Jong-un to move slowly in denuclearization talks with the U.S. is so intense that North Korean state media is avoiding any mention of the high-level meeting the nation's foreign minister had with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week in New York. Published October 2, 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference on trade between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and the nomination of Brett Cavanaugh to the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Mexico, Canada trade deal gives Trump China leverage

President Trump's ability to wangle a new deal from NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada will give the White House leverage to take a harder line in the escalating trade war with China, administration backers said Monday. Published October 1, 2018

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang gestures as he speaks during a daily briefing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ** FILE **

China says Donald Trump’s claim of election meddling is ‘slander’

President Trump's allegation that China is subversively meddling in the U.S. election process to try and make Republicans lose the upcoming midterms has sent shock waves through foreign policy circles in Beijing, where a key Chinese Foreign Ministry official lashed out Thursday that the U.S. should "stop its unwarranted accusations and slandering." Published September 27, 2018

John J. Sullivan, who been deputy secretary of state since Mike Pompeo took over as America's top diplomat four months ago, who officials say may be the most vital player on the Trump administration's team this week. (Associated Press)

John J. Sullivan, David Hale, Mark Green key to U.S. U.N. mission

President Trump may own the spotlight, but away from the microphones a seasoned core of lesser-known American officials were the ones driving the administration's foreign policy operation around the diplomatic extravaganza known as the U.N. General Assembly. Published September 26, 2018

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani arrives to address the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Hassan Rouhani accuses Trump of trying to overthrow Iran government

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accusing the Trump administration of trying to overthrow his government while National Security Advisor John R. Bolton warned there will "be hell to pay" if Tehran doesn't cease its provocative behavior on the world stage. Published September 25, 2018

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Hassan Rouhani uses U.N. stage to slam Trump over nuclear deal

Iran's president used the stage of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to slam President Trump's withdrawal of the 2015 Iranian nuclear accord, claiming the rest of the world won't go along with the U.S. move and that Washington's re-imposition of sanctions against Tehran is a "form of economic terrorism." Published September 25, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping visit the Ocean Russian children recreation center after at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. (Mikhail Metzel/TASS News Agency Pool Photo via AP)

Europe, China, Russia vow to dodge Trump’s new Iran sanctions

The remaining members of the 2015 Iranian nuclear accord say they're committed to finding ways to bypass economic sanctions being reimposed on Tehran by the U.S. following President Trump's withdrawal from the Obama-era deal. Published September 25, 2018