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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

** CORRECTS DATE to FEB. 6 ** Secretary of State John Kerry, right, poses for a photograph holding the team USA hockey jersey with Washington Capitals defenseman John Carlson, in the locker room before their game with the Winnipeg Jets, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, in Washington. Kerry was greeting players that have been selected for their country's Olympic hockey team. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Kerry urges Americans to attend Sochi Games

Secretary of State John F. Kerry says Americans should not allow concerns about security and terrorism scare them out of traveling to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, where the opening ceremony kicks off today.

February 7, 2014
In this May 28, 2007 file photo, a young boy seeks shelter behind a soldier with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne division after gunshots rang out at the scene where just a few minutes earlier a suicide car bomber blew himself up in a busy commercial district in central Baghdad. killing at least 21 people and wounding 66. In the beginning, it all looked simple: topple Saddam Hussein, destroy his purported weapons of mass destruction and lay the foundation for a pro-Western government in the heart of the Arab world. Nearly 4,500 American and more than 100,000 Iraqi lives later, the objective now is simply to get out _ and leave behind a country where democracy has at least a chance, where Iran does not dominate and where conditions may not be good but "good enough." (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

U.S. sees global terror network aiding Iraq attacks

The leading al Qaeda-inspired group in Syria and Iraq is tapping a “global network” of foreign fighters to carry out a surging number of suicide bombings in Iraq, the Obama administration’s top diplomat for the region said Wednesday.

February 5, 2014
In this file photo, then-Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman is shown at a Senate hearing on Feb. 4, 2014. Ms. Sherman is President Biden's nominee for Deputy Secretary of State. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) **FILE**

State official: Iran ‘not open for business’

Washington's top diplomat for Iranian nuclear negotiations stressed on Tuesday that the recent easing of U.S. sanctions on the Islamic republic is "limited" and "temporary," and threatened to "go after" foreign companies rushing to do business with Tehran in sectors where restrictions are still in place.

February 4, 2014
** FILE ** Members of Ahrar al-Sham brigade, one of the Syrian rebels groups, exercise in a train camp at unknown place in Syria. The growing muscle of an al Qaeda linked Syrian group is casting a grim shadow over northern Syria, where extremist militants have turned their attention to seizing activists who cover their country. (AP Photo)

Al Qaeda-like groups evolving, share goal of killing Americans

The landscape of Islamist terrorist groups is expanding in complex ways around the world, according to terrorism analysts who told Congress on Tuesday that while many groups have not formally aligned with al Qaeda, they share the original network's goals of killing Americans and establishing hard-line Islamic rule over various regions.

February 4, 2014
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens at left as CIA Director John Brennan, center, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on current and projected national security threats against the US. Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is at right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Intelligence leaks top terrorism in threat assessment

Syria has become a hotbed for al Qaeda training, Iran’s nuclear ambitions will hinge on the country’s internal politics, post-Arab Spring violence is likely to grow over the coming year, and the threat of a massive cyber attack on American interests is increasing.

January 29, 2014
**FILE** Vice President Joe Biden and Iraqi Council of Representatives Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi gesture toward their seats at the start of their meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 22, 2014. (Associated Press)

Iraqi leader: Nation on course for Syria-style civil war

The highest-ranking elected Sunni leader in Iraq painted a bleak picture of his nation's future Thursday, telling an audience in Washington that without serious and quick reconciliation between sectarian political parties, the country could be swallowed by a war comparable to the one now raging in Syria.

January 23, 2014
Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem leads his delegation during a plenary session in Montreux, Switzerland, Wednesday Jan. 22, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says there is no way that Syrian President Bashar Assad can be part of a transitional government that's being discussed at an international conference aimed at ending the country's brutal conflict. (AP Photo/Gary Cameron, Pool)

Syria peace talks open with bitter clash on fate of Bashar Assad

The clash between Washington and its adversaries over whether an end to Syria's war can be achieved without the resignation of President Bashar Assad was on full display Wednesday as a long-delayed international peace conference got underway in Switzerland.

January 22, 2014
The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group. U.S. Navy photo.

China encroaching on U.S. military dominance in Pacific, says top admiral

While Adm. Sam Locklear said it was obvious Chinese military power is growing, he suggested it remains unclear whether China will seek in the long-term to be a hard adversary to the U.S. — so Washington should be working overtime on steering Beijing toward a cooperative security posture.

January 16, 2014
** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.S. skeptical of report the West now helping Assad fight rebel extremists

A top official under Syrian President Bashar Assad says operatives from several Western intelligence agencies have held discussions with the government in Damascus about how to combat Islamic extremists who have become increasingly active in Syria's civil war over the past year.

January 15, 2014
Iraqis examine the aftermath of a bombing in Baghdad. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq accuses Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of fomenting sectarian violence to limit the electoral voices of Sunnis in upcoming elections and criticized the Obama administration for failing to do more for a country "destroyed" by the U.S. (Associated Press)

Iraqi deputy prime minister blames U.S., al-Maliki for rising violence

One of Iraq's top Sunni politicians on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of fomenting sectarian violence to limit the voices of Sunnis in upcoming elections, and he criticized the Obama administration for failing to do more for a country "destroyed" by the United States.

January 14, 2014