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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

China, Iran and Russia criticized the U.S. after a group of pro-Trump forces stormed the Capitol. Some U.S. voices fretted openly that the siege presented a propaganda windfall for foreign adversaries. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

For foes abroad, deadly Capitol clashes prove a tempting target

China called it a "collapse" of the U.S. political system that would "destroy" America's global image. Iran went with the "annihilation of Western democracy," while Russia said the situation was proof the U.S. system is "no longer charting the course" for the world.

January 7, 2021
U.S. Capitol Police hold protesters at gun-point near the House Chamber inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Images of chaos at the Capitol spread through world’s media

Stunned U.S. allies and adversaries alike weighed in on the chaos that engulfed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, as images of the confrontation between President Trump's supporters and law enforcement led virtually every news website around the globe.

January 6, 2021
In this May 5, 2018, file photo, a giant image of the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani adorns a tower in Doha, Qatar. Kuwait’s foreign ministry announced Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, that Saudi Arabia will open its air and land borders with Qatar in the first steps toward ending a diplomatic crisis that has deeply divided regional U.S. allies since 2017. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Saudis and Qataris reach possible breakthrough to end GCC flap: Officials

Kuwait said Monday that Saudi Arabia had agreed to reopen its airspace and land and sea borders to Qatar in an apparent breakthrough toward resolving the diplomatic fight between wealthy Gulf Arab monarchies that has vastly complicated the Trump administration's diplomacy.

January 4, 2021
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year's chaos for cross-border commerce and bring a measure of certainty to businesses after years of Brexit turmoil. The breakthrough on Thursday came after months of tense and often testy negotiations that whittled differences down to three key issues: fair-competition rules, mechanisms for resolving future disputes and fishing rights. (Paul Grover/Pool Photo via AP)

Britain and European Union reach post-Brexit trade agreement

Britain and the European Union reached a last-minute trade agreement Thursday, paving the way for an end to more than four years of turmoil that has surrounded United Kingdom's decision to leave the EU -- a departure slated to be finalized at year's end.

December 24, 2020
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends meeting with medical staff as he visits a hospital which provides medical care to patients with COVID-19, in the town of Stolbtsy, 75 kilometers (46 miles) south-west of Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

Alexander Lukashenko clings to power in Belarus

Months of demonstrations calling for the ouster of longtime authoritarian strongman Alexander Lukashenko had raised hopes for a democratic uprising in Belarus, a country of roughly 10 million people located in the tense geopolitical battleground between Russia and the West.

December 9, 2020
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends the 21st meeting of the Political Bureau of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) **FILE**

Thousands die in secret North Korea COVID camps: Report

South Korea cast fresh doubt over the weekend on North Korea's assertions that it has not recorded a single COVID-19, while reports swirled of tens of thousands dying in secret quarantine camps run by the ruling regime in Pyongyang.

December 6, 2020