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Guy Taylor

gtaylor@washingtontimes.com

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

Mohammed Jassim is treated at a hospital Monday after a car-bomb attack in Baghdad. An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed scores of people across Iraq on the deadliest day so far this year since the U.S. departed. (Associated Press)

U.S. keeps hands-off policy after a bloody day in Iraq

The United States on Monday stood by its hands-off policy toward Iraq after more than 100 Iraqis died in a wave of 37 coordinated terrorist attacks across the country — the most intense assault since American forces left seven months ago.

July 23, 2012
In this citizen journalist image, smoke billows July 18, 2012, over Damascus, Syria, after a bomb ripped through a high-level security meeting and killed three top regime officials, including President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law. (Associated Press)

Washington worried over Syria attack

The State Department on Wednesday raised concerns that the security apparatus surrounding Syrian President Bashar Assad is beginning to falter after top Syrians were killed in a bombing at the National Security headquarters.

July 18, 2012
Andrew Natsios, the president’s special envoy for Sudan, gestures during a press briefing on Darfur and the U.S.-imposed sanctions, on Tuesday, May 29, 2007, at the State Department in Washington. (Associated Press)

Romney advisers are zealous on Sudan, but is he?

Two of Mitt Romney's top foreign policy advisers slammed the Obama administration this week for failing to address a mounting humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan, saying Mr. Obama's mishandling of the region's ongoing crisis offers a window into how a Romney White House would do things differently.

July 15, 2012
A statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands guard outside the Treasury Building in Washington.

U.S. deepens sanctions on Iran

The Obama administration on Thursday imposed fresh sanctions against entities and individuals involved in Iran's defense, aerospace and shipping communities in the government's effort to thwart the Islamic republic's nuclear program.

July 12, 2012
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a press conference at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Thursday, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendon Smialowski, Pool)

Clinton pushes China on maritime pact

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that she hopes China will work diplomatically with its regional partners toward "finalizing a code of conduct" for resolving territorial disputes over the oil-rich South China Sea.

July 12, 2012
**FILE** Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns June 19, 2012, in Holland, Mich. (Associated Press)

Romney is likely to spring surprise with pick for State

While speculation in the political world over Mitt Romney's vice presidential choice courses through the summer barbecue circuit, an equally juicy topic is beginning to bubble up among foreign policy analysts: Who might be secretary of state in a Romney administration?

July 11, 2012
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney arrives June 29, 2012, for a private fundraiser in Buffalo, N.Y. (Associated Press)

Romney would support foreign friends, confront adversaries

Mitt Romney has assembled a foreign-policy platform rooted in the belief that adversaries such as Russia must be confronted for backsliding on democracy and that Israel must be supported in the face of common threats such as a nuclear-armed Iran.

July 1, 2012
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Old power looks to regain hold in Mexico

Mexicans voted for a new president Sunday after a campaign dominated by calls for economic growth and debate about how to proceed with a bloody war on drug cartels that has killed nearly 50,000 people since 2006.

July 1, 2012
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers a brief statement about the Supreme Court's ruling on health care on June 28, 2012, after arriving in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Associated Press)

China exempted from sanction on Iranian oil

The U.S. added China to the list of nations exempted from sanctions against Iran on Thursday, citing an effort undertaken by Chinese authorities to significantly reduce their crude oil purchases from the Islamic republic.

June 28, 2012
A Guatemalan policeman takes notes on about helicopter that crashed 124 miles northwest of Guatemala City in 2003 while transporting 1,675 pounds of cocaine. (Associated Press)

Central America next drug hot spot

A State Department official this week compared the war on drugs in Latin America to baseball games, in which the United States is winning in Colombia, leading in Mexico and just coming to bat in Central America, where there are too many umpires.

June 21, 2012
Egyptian supporters of Islamist candidate Mohammed Morsi flash victory signs June 18, 2012, as they celebrate his apparent victory in Cairo's Tahrir Square. (Associated Press)

State Department chides Egypt’s military rulers

The State Department on Monday sharpened its criticism of Egypt's ruling military council after it granted itself broad new powers as Egyptians voted in their first free presidential election since the ouster of authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak last year.

June 18, 2012
**FILE** Iraqi police stand guard outside Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, in December 2011. (Associated Press/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)

Official: No decision yet on Iranian dissidents

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has not moved any closer to removing an Iranian dissident group from the U.S. list of terror organizations, senior Obama administration officials said on Monday.

June 18, 2012
Moroccan Ambassador to the U.S. Mohammed Rachad Bouhlal talks to editors and reporters at The Washington Times on Wednesday. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

European woes spark challenges for Moroccans

Morocco may have avoided the upheaval of an Arab Spring revolution, but it faces other challenges due to its economic closeness to crisis-riddled Europe and heavy reliance on remittances.

June 14, 2012
Zoltan Kovacs, Hungary's state secretary for government communication, said his country's government has become a "whipping boy" of the Western media. As a result, "we've found that whatever we do is being criticized." Judicial, media, banking and religious laws pushed through by the Fidsz Party's parliamentary supermajority have raised concern. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Hungarian leaders see hysteria among critics of reforms

The United States and the European Union have fallen victim to a "kind of hysteria" in their reactions to the new constitution enacted this year by Hungary's ruling nationalist, a leading spokesman for the Central European nation says.

June 5, 2012

U.S. concerned over imprisoned American in the UAE

The United States has "significant concerns" about the case of an American businessman who has spent the past month on a hunger strike in the United Arab Emirates, where he has been imprisoned without trial for more than four years.

June 5, 2012
**FILE** Officers of the urban management bureau, known as chengguan in Chinese, demand Nov. 20, 2011, a beggar and his child leave a street in Guiyang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province. (Associated Press)

Rights report hails Arab Spring, scolds North Korea, Syria

Human rights conditions remain dismal in North Korea and Iran and got worse in China, where "efforts to silence political activists and public-interest lawyers were stepped up" last year, according the State Department's annual reports on human rights released Thursday.

May 24, 2012