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Guy Taylor

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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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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks to high level military officials in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. (Nikolay Petrov/Pool Photo via AP)

Joint military drills spark fears of growing Russian sway in Belarus

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday dismissed Western concerns over his country's joint military exercises with Russia later this month, but the region remains tense amid signs of a growing security alliance between Moscow and an isolated and increasingly Kremlin-aligned Minsk.

September 1, 2021
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi speaks during a press conference with his German counterpart Heiko Maas after their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, August 31, 2021. Maas arrived in Islamabad on two-day visit to hold talks with Pakistani leadership to discuss bilateral matters, international issues and the current situation in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Short-term gains: Pakistan a strategic winner with Taliban triumph — for now

The fall of Kabul to the Taliban -- a hard-line Islamist group created largely by Pakistani intelligence in the 1990s -- delivers what could be a major strategic victory for Pakistan, according to national security sources who say Islamabad has spent the past 20 years carefully playing both sides of the war in Afghanistan to protect its own interests.

August 31, 2021
Afghans lie on beds at a hospital after they were wounded in the deadly attacks outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. (AP Photo/Mohammad Asif Khan)

Shadowy ‘ISIS-K’ group well known for grisly attacks

It boasts only a few thousand fighters in its ranks, but the Islamic State-Khorasan -- or ISIS-K -- has built its reputation on high-profile, horrific terrorist attacks, from a brutal assault on an Afghan maternity ward 15 months ago to Thursday's dual suicide bombings that killed civilians and American troops at Kabul's airport.

August 26, 2021
Taliban fighters pose for a photograph in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Evacuation proceeds, but fears of Taliban reprisal soar

Even as the U.S. and its allies continued the scramble to evacuate citizens and their Afghan associates from Kabul, a confidential United Nations assessment is warning that the Taliban are intensifying efforts to hunt down Afghans who worked with American and NATO forces over the past two decades and that the militants have threatened to kill or arrest their family members if the people being sought cannot be found.

August 19, 2021
Taliban fighters display their flag on patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Anti-Taliban protests spread to Kabul, grow in other Afghan cities

Anti-Taliban protests grew for a second day in Afghanistan and spread to the streets of Kabul for the first time since the militant group seized the country's capital, where tense crowds of Afghans gathered on Thursday to celebrate the anniversary of the country's independence from British control more than a century ago.

August 19, 2021
In front of a Taliban flag, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks at at his first news conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. For years, Mujahid had been a shadowy figure issuing statements on behalf of the militants. Mujahid vowed Tuesday that the Taliban would respect women's rights, forgive those who resisted them and ensure a secure Afghanistan as part of a publicity blitz aimed at convincing world powers and a fearful population that they have changed. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban plot next steps as U.S. retreat accelerates

A surge of American troops restored order and evacuation flights resumed from Afghanistan's main international airport Tuesday, while Taliban representatives now ruling Kabul began a publicity blitz to plead for calm and convince the world the militant group has changed its ways since ruling over the Afghan capital with an iron Islamist fist two decades ago.

August 17, 2021
In front of a Taliban flag, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks at at his first news conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. For years, Mujahid had been a shadowy figure issuing statements on behalf of the militants. Mujahid vowed Tuesday that the Taliban would respect women's rights, forgive those who resisted them and ensure a secure Afghanistan as part of a publicity blitz aimed at convincing world powers and a fearful population that they have changed. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban promise to respect women’s rights; few are buying it

Taliban militants now controlling Afghanistan claim Tuesday that they will not seek reprisal attacks for now and would honor women's rights, as long as those rights fit within the group's definition of Islamic law -- an assurance that fell largely on deaf ears Tuesday as thousands of men, women and children continued to scramble for the exits in Kabul.

August 17, 2021
Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug.16. 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto an American military jet as it took off and plunged to death. (Verified UGC via AP)

Chaos on the ground, uncertainty on what’s to come in Afghanistan

Chaos enveloped the international airport in Kabul on Monday, with U.S. troops trying to maintain order while throngs of people rushed the tarmac and large crowds pushed against the facility's outer gates amid mounting collective panic a day after the Taliban swept back to power in the Afghan capital.

August 16, 2021
FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2021, file photo Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about refugee programs for Afghans who aided the U.S., during a briefing at the State Department in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP, File)

Blinken: Biden admin ‘inherited’ Afghan situation from Trump

Political mudslinging over the apparent fall of Kabul to the Taliban escalated in Washington Sunday, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken claiming the Biden administration "inherited" the situation from the former Trump administration and had to go along with a rushed U.S. pullout to avoid restarting "a war that we need to end."

August 15, 2021
A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday, further tightening their grip on the country as panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Ghani flees Afghanistan, U.S. diplomats burn documents as Taliban enter Kabul

American diplomats burned documents and the U.S. military rushed to evacuate personnel from Kabul on Sunday morning as Taliban fighters entered the Afghan capital and pushed for the unconditional surrender of the Afghan government, capping a stunning insurgent offensive coinciding with the American military withdrawal after two decades of war.

August 15, 2021