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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

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk to their vehicle after visiting MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2017, where House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of La. was taken after being shot in Alexandria, Va., during a Congressional baseball practice. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Cuba policies of Obama may be rolled back under Donald Trump

President Trump is expected to announce a rollback of his predecessor's detente with Cuba during a visit Friday to Miami, likely to include a reimposition of U.S. travel restrictions to the communist island as well as a limiting of business interactions between American companies and entities controlled by the Cuban military. Published June 14, 2017

A suspected North Korean drone crashed near the border between North and South Korea in Inje. South Korean officials found the unmanned aircraft and it found that it had taken photos of a U.S. missile defense shield. Investigators found hundreds of photos. (Associated Press)

South Korean officials find drone along border

A suspected North Korean spy drone flew more than 100 miles into South Korea and snapped photos of the recently deployed U.S. anti-ballistic missile system before circling back and crashing on the southern side of the fortified border that divides the Korean peninsula. Published June 13, 2017

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday June 13, 2017, while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Pentagon's budget. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

James Mattis, Rex Tillerson face heat over aid cuts, Russia policy

President Trump's top diplomat and Pentagon chief defended the administration's plan to cut U.S. aid programs, argued for keeping the door open to Russian cooperation and offered a sobering assessment of the Afghan War on Tuesday in a round of Capitol Hill hearings on the White House's 2018 budget proposals for the State and Defense Departments. Published June 13, 2017

"Clearly the level of spending that the State Department has been undertaking ... is simply not sustainable," said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (right). He is to appear at a Senate hearing Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Rex Tillerson in the hot seat as Senate budget hearing looms

With much of his senior staff still to be named, his department's programs on the chopping block, and his influence with the boss in question, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson could face some uncomfortable moments when he appears Tuesday for a Senate hearing on President Trump's 2018 budget blueprint. Published June 12, 2017

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement in Downing Street, London, after chairing a meeting of the Government's emergency Cobra committee following Saturday night's terrorist incident in London. Several people were killed in the terror attack at the heart of London and dozens injured. The prime minister called for a tougher stance at home against extremists. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

Theresa May Conservative party lose majority, 16 seats in Britain election exit polls show

In what would be a shocking repudiation of Prime Minister Theresa May, British exit polls Thursday suggested the ruling Conservatives were on course to lose their majority in Parliament in an election Mrs. May called to cement her power and boost her bargaining leverage ahead of tough negotiations over exiting the European Union. Published June 8, 2017

FILE - In this May 2, 2017, file photo, a U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, is installed on a golf course in Seongju, South Korea. (Kim Jun-beom/Yonhap via AP, File)

South Korea’s halt on THAAD sparks frustration in Washington

The decision by South Korea's new president to suspend the U.S. military's deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense -- THAAD -- missile defense system to the nation has drawn frustration this week from an influential Republican lawmaker in Washington. Published June 8, 2017

A man hands a child to a security guard from Iran's parliament building after an assault of several attackers in Tehran on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Iran blames terrorist attacks on Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump

Brazen terrorist attacks against Iran's parliament and the mausoleum of the Islamic republic's founding ayatollah escalated tensions across the Middle East on Wednesday, with Iranian officials quickly blaming rival Saudi Arabia, even though the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the strikes that left 12 dead and more than 40 wounded in Tehran. Published June 7, 2017

A parked Qatari plane in Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Qatar's foreign minister says Kuwait is trying to mediate a diplomatic crisis in which Arab countries have cut diplomatic ties and moved to isolate his energy-rich, travel-hub nation from the outside world. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

UAE says it will punish anyone who speaks out in defense of Qatar

Freedom of speech may be on the back burner for the moment in the United Arab Emirates, which is threatening stiff fines and up to 15 years in prison for anyone who expresses sympathy or any other kind of public support for Qatar. Published June 7, 2017

Life proceeded as normal in Doha, Qatar, on Monday even as Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries severed ties, accusing the nation of supporting terrorist groups. (Associated Press)

Arab neighbors isolate Qatar over terror ties

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and two other Arab powers -- apparently emboldened by President Trump's recent visit to the region -- on Monday moved to diplomatically isolate the tiny, energy-rich Persian Gulf nation of Qatar over what they say are its ties to Iran and support for jihadi groups such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Published June 5, 2017

Pakistani Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry said his country will have plenty of economic opportunity in coming years that could be at risk from violence in neighboring Afghanistan. (Associated Press/File)

Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistan’s ambassador, awaits Trump’s Afghanistan policy

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Pakistan's military has swept terrorist groups from the nation's once-lawless tribal areas, but the gains could be put at risk if the security situation across the border in Afghanistan is not brought under control, Islamabad's diplomat in Washington said, stressing that his nation is waiting for the Trump administration to clarify its strategy for the Afghanistan conflict. Published June 4, 2017

Former CIA Director John O. Brennan said one of Russia's favorite spycraft tricks is to "suborn" agents to work for them, either wittingly or otherwise, and that the technique may have been part of the election hacking. (Associated Press)

Unknowing Russian conspirators in Congress, media more dangerous than partisan bickering

The extent to which Trump campaign officials and others across America's political landscape "unwittingly" aided Russia's efforts to wreak havoc on the 2016 election is an increasing focus of competing federal investigations into Moscow's alleged meddling, according to current and former officials familiar with the probes. Published June 1, 2017

Leftist Mexican politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a critic of President Trump, is running for office in the State of Mexico. (Associated Press)

Andres Obrador, Trump critic seeks boost in Mexico state election

The "Trump effect" at the ballot box will get a critical test this weekend -- in Mexico, where polling suggests the opposition party of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a sharp critic of the U.S. president, may capture a key state-level gubernatorial race and provide a dramatic boost for the leftist leader's chances in next year's presidential race. Published May 31, 2017

While Western authorities have been focused on jihadi attacks in places like Manchester, England, intelligence analysts warn that Islamic State may be taking advantage of largely lawless areas in Southeast Asia as terror staging grounds. (Associated Press)

ISIS moves into Southeast Asia

Western powers and media outlets convulsed in shock at last week's horrific suicide attack on a pop concert in Britain, but little attention was paid to a surge of violence by the Islamic State on the other side of the world -- specifically in the Philippines and Indonesia. Published May 28, 2017

Sky News on Wednesday aired two screengrabs of footage that police believe shows the Manchester bomber. British officials said a suspected U.S. leak jeopardized the police investigation. (Associated Press)

Manchester bomber ID leaks hurt U.S. credibility, hinder British investigation

Officials in Washington are scrambling to account for the leaked identity of Britain's deadliest suicide bomber in a decade after British authorities accused the United States of revealing the sensitive information -- the latest instance of unauthorized disclosures undermining American credibility around the world. Published May 24, 2017

A drone is paraded in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Associated Press/File)

North Korea attack drones can strike Seoul in 1 hour

North Korea's military has 300 to 400 attack drones capable of carrying biological and chemical weapons that could reach the South Korean capital of Seoul within one hour, according to a high-level defector from the isolated regime ruling Pyongyang. Published May 22, 2017

A demonstrator protests the presence of the U.S. military's Terminal High Altitude Areal Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in Seongju County south of Seoul. (Guy Taylor/The Washington Times)

South Korea THAAD protesters see U.S. militarism, not protection

The first protest signs come into view just down the road from where the U.S. military has positioned an anti-ballistic missile system in this rural hillside county about 150 miles south of the fortified border that divides the Korean Peninsula. Published May 22, 2017