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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

Israeli police officers carry the flag draped coffin of Druze Israeli police officer Zidan Sif in the Druze village of Yanuh-Jat, northern Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Sif, 30, died of his wounds on Tuesday after Two Palestinian cousins armed with meat cleavers and a gun stormed a Jerusalem synagogue during morning prayers Tuesday, killing four people in the city’s bloodiest attack in years. Police killed the attackers in a shootout. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hamas says ‘intifada’ against Jews in Israel will continue

A senior Hamas leader says the U.S.-designated terrorist group plans to push ahead with a violent intifada in Israel and called Tuesday's grisly attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem a "natural retort" to "Israeli crimes" against Palestinians. Published November 19, 2014

In this June 16, 2013 file photo, Internet users browse their Facebook website by the free wifi internet service in an underground station in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

State Department cyber attack prompts shutdown of email system

The State Department computer system fell victim to a cyber attack during recent weeks, according to U.S. officials who say the incident prompted a full shutdown of the department's unclassified email system and occurred around the same time hackers penetrated systems at the White House. Published November 17, 2014

Ma Ying-jeou

Taiwan-U.S. trade may benefit from GOP-led Senate

A top Taiwanese development official says Taipei is optimistic the Republican takeover of the U.S. Senate will accelerate Washington's pursuit of a free trade pact between the West and Asia, and is hopeful about the prospects of a direct U.S.-Taiwan deal. Published November 16, 2014

War Loot: Islamic State militants rummage through a cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces. The weapons were meant to supply Kurdish forces battling the extremist group in Kobani, Syria, but "now they are spoils for the mujahedeen," one militant said. (Associated Press)

U.S. cutting into Islamic State’s revenue stream

The Treasury Department's top official for tracking terrorist financing says money continues to flow to the Islamic State, but Washington is beginning to bite hard on the group's revenue streams and its ability to pay fighters in Iraq and Syria. Published November 13, 2014

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, before the House Armed Services committee hearing on the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Hagel: Obama administration plans to widen air campaign against Islamic State

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that he is "sober about the challenges" ahead in the growing war against the Islamic State and stressed that the Obama administration is planing to widen to soon widen the scope of the current campaign of airstrikes against the group in Syria and Iraq. Published November 13, 2014

China's Public Security Minister Guo Shengkun, center, talks with Xinjiang Party Secretary Zhang Chunxian, right, as they visit the site of an explosion in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang region, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Assailants in two SUVs plowed through shoppers while setting off explosives on a busy street market in China's volatile northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday, the local officials said, killing over two dozen people and injuring more than 90. The attack was the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents that Chinese authorities have blamed on radical separatists from the country's Muslim Uighur minority. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

New China counterterrorism initiative to focus on intelligence gathering

The Chinese government has launched an new initiative that will use "big data" to improve intelligence gathering for counterterrorism operations — most likely to focus on activity among the Muslim ethnic Uighur groups in the nation's Western Xinjang region. Published November 13, 2014

Drones are about to be used for much more than military missions, and states already are preparing. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

7 al Qaeda fighters killed amid surge of drone strikes in Yemen

Seven suspected al Qaeda militants were killed Wednesday by a drone strike in southern Yemen, the latest in a significant uptick of counterterrorist strikes reportedly being carried out in the Mideast nation by the Obama administration. Published November 12, 2014

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama, center, talk on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014 in Beijing. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Presidential Press Service)

Iran, Russia strike nuclear reactor deal

Russia's atomic agency announced Tuesday it will build eight civilian nuclear reactors for Iran, a move that adds complexity and tension to ongoing Western negotiations over the Islamic republic's disputed nuclear program. Published November 11, 2014

The Republican takeover of the Senate may pave the way for Sen. John McCain (left) and other GOP foreign policy hawks like Sen. Lindsey Graham to try to play "back-seat driver" to the White House, but at the end of the day, "if the president doesn't want to do what they push for, that's entirely up to him," said one senior congressional aide. (Associated Press)

Republican Senate takeover gives war hawks, neocons bully pulpit

Republican insiders say legislation already is in the works to pressure the White House into expanding the war against the Islamic State and increasing pressure on Russia and Iran, as the GOP takeover of the Senate provides neocons and war hawks with their first bully pulpit since the end of George W. Bush's presidency. Published November 6, 2014