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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

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson  arrives at Benito Juarez international Airport in Mexico City, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017. (Carlos Barria/Pool photo via AP)

State Department pushes back against criticism of media access

The State Department is pushing back against criticism from former senior officials and journalists over the lack of press conferences and other media access at the department since Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was sworn in three weeks ago. Published February 23, 2017

Supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad celebrated a government military victory in Aleppo last month. A common enemy, the Islamic State terrorist group, has created a delicate coalition of U.S., Turkish, Russian and Iranian-backed forces, as well as moderate Sunni Muslim Arab rebels and Kurdish paramilitaries. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s plan for ‘safe zones’ for Syrian refugees opposed by Turkey

President Trump's vision of "safe zones" for refugees fleeing the brutal violence of Syria's civil war is running into opposition from a key ally, Turkey, which is warning that the U.S.-protected areas will become havens for Kurdish militant movements that have long battled Ankara. The dispute widens deep-seated resentments between two key allies that the U.S. is relying on in the final battle to defeat the Islamic State in Syria. Published February 22, 2017

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has little backup for a delicate diplomatic Mexico mission on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

State Department vacancies highlight Trump administration’s growing pains

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson heads to Mexico City for a delicate diplomatic mission Wednesday, but he is going at a moment of tremendous uncertainty back at the office, where more than dozen key assistant secretary positions are still without even a proposed nominee from the White House. Published February 21, 2017

Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami said the Trump administration's action represented "miserable and defamatory aggression." (Associated Press)

Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela vice president, rejects U.S. ‘drug kingpin’ sanctions

Venezuela's vice president defiantly rejected U.S. sanctions identifying him as a major international "drug kingpin" Tuesday, as the White House revealed details about its first major action against the leftist South American government that President Trump vowed to get tough on during his election campaign. Published February 14, 2017

An image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears in a TV news report about the country's missile launch Sunday, an early test of the Trump administration. (Associated Press)

North Korea missile launch leaves Donald Trump cautious in response

The Trump administration responded cautiously Sunday to North Korea's test launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile into the sea off the isolated nation's east coast in Pyongyang's first major provocation since President Trump took office last month. Published February 12, 2017

Gen. John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, oversaw a three-month review of the situation on the ground, which triggered changes in strategy by the Pentagon and White House officials this month. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

John Nicholson: Russian involvement in Afghanistan becoming ‘more difficult’

Russia, Pakistan and Iran are working to "legitimize and support" the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to the top U.S. military commander in the war zone, who told lawmakers Thursday that thousands more American or NATO troops are needed to break the "stalemate" between Afghan forces and the insurgent group while the Islamic State also remains active in the nation. Published February 9, 2017

Iranian dissidents have documented work at 42 missile centers operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime's dominant security force. A dozen of those sites had never been disclosed before. (Associated Press/File)

Iran defies Trump’s threat on missiles, puts U.S. on notice

Iranian officials responded defiantly Thursday to the Trump administration's threat to take a much tougher line over Tehran's ballistic missile tests and support for terrorism-related activities, as the White House reportedly was preparing a slate of new sanctions against the Islamic republic as early as Friday. Published February 2, 2017

Rex Tillerson speaks during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, where he is sworn in as Secretary of State. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Rex Tillerson arrives as ‘the new guy’ at the State Department

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson sought to win the support of an uneasy State Department Thursday, asserting on arrival at department headquarters that he holds the nation's career diplomats in "high regard" and will treat them with "respect" as President Trump's top foreign policy adviser. Published February 2, 2017

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2017, file photo, Secretary of State-nominee Rex Tillerson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Trump's nomination of Tillerson for secretary of state is headed toward Senate confirmation after several Democrats crossed party lines to back the former Exxon Mobil CEO. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Rex Tillerson confirmed as secretary of state by Senate

The Senate voted 56-43 to confirm Mr. Tillerson as the nation's 69th secretary of state on Wednesday, with Republicans picking up three Democratic votes to pierce the minority's hoped-for united front against the former ExxonMobil CEO. Published February 1, 2017