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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

As emergency workers sorted through the damaged terminal at the Brussels airport on Wednesday, Belgian authorities were searching for a top suspect in the country's deadliest attacks in decades. (Associated Press)

Brussels attacks raise fresh concerns about EU’s open borders

Belgian investigators on Wednesday were focused on a small cluster of city blocks as they scrambled to piece together the plot behind Tuesday's grisly terrorist attacks, but political and security fallout from the triple bombing is being felt across the Continent, where many are now questioning whether fundamental European values of openness and solidarity can survive. Published March 23, 2016

mourning: A crowd gathers at Place de la Bourse in the center of Brussels to hold a candlelight vigil for victims of the Tuesday bombings at the Zaventem Airport and one of the city's metro stations, where scores were killed and wounded. (Associated Press photographs)

Brussels terror attacks confirm Belgium’s fears after Salah Abdeslam arrest

There was a growing sense of fatalism among many here even before the first bomb went off, the first of three explosions detonated by suspected Islamic State suicide bombers at this city's main airport and central subway stop in less than an hour that left at least 34 dead and nearly 200 more -- including at least nine Americans -- wounded. Published March 22, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the 2016 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference, March 21, 2016, at the Verizon Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Israel support strong among presidential candidates

The Democratic and Republican presidential front-runners offered very different messages Monday in speeches before the annual gathering of America's most influential pro-Israel group, and both used the opportunity to lash out at each other. Published March 21, 2016

Secretary of State John F. Kerry. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

ISIS ‘genocide’ declaration doesn’t ensure U.S. will take action

Secretary of State John F. Kerry's declaration that the Islamic State is engaged in a genocide against Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq met with wide approval Thursday, but major questions loom over whether the designation will result in any serious move by the Obama administration to stop the carnage. Published March 17, 2016

Sen. Kelly Ayotte, New Hampshire Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

GOP senators push for new Iran sanctions after missile tests

A group of Republican senators are pushing new legislation that would require President Obama to impose a fresh slate of economic sanctions on Iran in response to the series of ballistic missile tests recently carried out by the Islamic Republic. Published March 17, 2016

The House of Representatives approved 393-0 a resolution declaring as "genocide" atrocities committed by the Islamic State against Christians, sending a strong signal to Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who has been deliberating for months. (Associated Press)

John Kerry to miss deadline on Christian genocide declaration

Secretary of State John F. Kerry will miss a deadline set by Congress for deciding whether atrocities carried out against Christians and other religious minorities by the Islamic State terror group in Syria and Iraq should be officially declared a "genocide." Published March 16, 2016

Ukraine’s progress slowed by ‘dirty money,’ simmering conflict

The U.S.-backed government in Ukraine is burdened by "dirty money and dirty politics" and its frozen conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the nation's east is "heating up again," the State Department's point woman for European policy warned Tuesday. Published March 15, 2016

Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, on June 16, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

ISIS recruits’ addresses, phone numbers leaked by defector in major intelligence break

In what could be a major intelligence break in the war against the Islamic State, American and European officials are poring over a list of some 22,000 suspected Islamic State recruits -- including operatives from the U.S., Britain and Canada -- whose addresses and phone numbers were on a memory stick leaked to a British news organization by a purported defector from the Syria-based terrorist group. Published March 10, 2016

An Iraqi man weeps as he holds a Christian religious poster depicting Jesus and the Virgin Mary during a demonstration calling for governmental reform in Tahrir Square in Baghdad on Feb. 26. (Associated Press)

Genocide underway against Christians in Iraq and Syria, Catholic priest tells U.S.

A decade has gone by since the Rev. Douglas al-Bazi was kidnapped and had his teeth knocked out by Islamic jihadis in Baghdad, a nightmare that still haunts the Chaldean Catholic priest and one that fuels his quest to have the horror endured by his fellow Iraqi Christians be recognized for what it is: "genocide." Published March 9, 2016

Syrian soldiers keep watch on a roof in a town on the outskirts of Damascus that is hosting large numbers of refugees from other areas of the besieged country. (Associated Press)

Syria cease-fire reduces carnage, returns some normalcy to hard-hit areas

There were skeptics aplenty when it was announced, but U.S. and U.N. officials are saying the fragile cease-fire between the forces of Russian-backed Syrian President Bashar Assad and opposition groups that went into effect late last week is reducing the carnage -- for now. Published March 3, 2016

strategic allies: Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian (right) has agreed to let Russian President Vladimir Putin deploy a slew of military vehicles to a base just outside the Armenian capital of Yerevan. (Associated Press)

Armenia pulled into Russia-Turkey clash in Syria

The clash between Russia and Turkey is not just taking place in the skies over Syria. It's also spreading to the nearby Caucasus region, where a fresh wave of Russian military overtures to Armenia threatens to reignite a frozen conflict that has pitted Moscow against Ankara for decades. Published March 2, 2016