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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

President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone in June 30, 2019. (AP file Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

U.S. must ramp up, not ease, pressure on North Korea, new report warns

The Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign has "failed" to prevent North Korea from obtaining resources to continue developing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, according to an influential U.S. think tank calling for a significant revamping of the campaign.

December 6, 2019
FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, people walk past buildings that were burned during recent protests, in Shahriar, Iran, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran. Amnesty International says at least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by security forces. The country has yet to release any nationwide statistics about the unrest last month. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran ‘murdered’ over 1,000 protesters, U.S. officials say

More than 1,000 Iranian protesters may have been "murdered" in recent weeks by the country's internal security services, top Trump administration officials said Thursday, while the Pentagon skirted questions about plans to send thousands of additional U.S. troops to the region to contain Iran in the region.

December 5, 2019
Hundreds of people march inside Tahrir Square carrying national flags and chanting religious slogans in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Anti-government protesters say multiple people have suffered stab wounds in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of their movement, after political parties and Iran-backed militia groups briefly joined them, raising fears of infiltration by authorities. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iran ‘murdered’ as many as 1,000 protesters, State Department says

Iranian internal security forces have engaged in mass killings of demonstrators protesting the theocratic government in Tehran, according to the Trump administration's top Iran envoy, who says authorities there "could have murdered over 1,000 Iranian citizens."

December 5, 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to U.S. President Donald Trump during a press conference after the meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Vladimir Putin uses impeachment to exacerbate rifts in U.S.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is exploiting political divisions around the impeachment in Washington with the goal of driving a sharp new wedge between the U.S. and Ukraine, the energy-rich former Soviet republic that Moscow has long sought to control.

December 4, 2019
Cars block a street during a protest against a rise in gasoline prices, in the central city of Isfahan, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. Demonstrators angered by a 50% increase in government-set gasoline prices blocked traffic in major cities and occasionally clashed with police Saturday after a night of demonstrations punctuated by gunfire. (AP Photo)

Mike Pompeo backs Iran uprising despite crackdown

Violent protests against the government rocking more than 100 Iranian cities in recent weeks, coupled with Washington's rising economic and military pressure against Tehran, appear to be shaking the Islamic republic's leaders at a level not seen in years.

November 26, 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a large delegation of African leaders this month for a summit in Sochi, pitching Russia's potential value as a source of aid and weaponry. (Associated Press/File)

Russia uses Syria tactics in Libya power play

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Russia's role in helping President Bashar Assad secure victory in Syria's civil war has emboldened Moscow to expand its operations into Libya with the goal of supplanting American and other Western influence there, the top security official in Tripoli's U.N.-backed government warned in an interview.

November 17, 2019
Russia's President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Leaders Dialogue with BRICS Business Council and the New Development Bank, at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. (AP Photo /Eraldo Peres)

Top Libyan minister warns of rising Russian infiltration in civil war

Russia's role in helping President Bashar Assad secure victory in Syria's civil war has emboldened Moscow to expand its operations into Libya with the goal of supplanting American and Western influence there, the top security official in Tripoli's U.N.-backed government warned in an interview.

November 17, 2019
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., followed by Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., walks out to talk to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, about the House impeachment inquiry. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

New complaint filed against impeachment whistleblower

A new complaint from within the U.S. intelligence community alleges the whistleblower who launched the impeachment effort against President Trump is violating federal law by soliciting donations -- $227,000 and counting, with some coming in anonymously -- on a GoFundMe page.

November 12, 2019
U.S. and South Korean officials held a strategy meeting during the 2019 Moscow Nonproliferation Conference to discuss ways to renew talks between the U.S. and North Korea that broke down last month. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Signs point to renewed talks between U.S., North Korea

There was no substantial meeting between U.S. and North Korean officials at a key nuclear nonproliferation conference in Moscow over the weekend, but signs are emerging that talks between the two sides could resume in coming weeks.

November 10, 2019
Demonstrators set fire to a rendition of the U.S. flag during a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Nov. 4, 2019. Reviving decades-old cries of "Death to America," Iran on Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the 1979 student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed as tensions remain high over the country's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran uranium enrichment doubled on embassy takeover anniversary

U.S.-Iran tensions escalated Monday as Tehran announced a doubling of its uranium enrichment activities in a calculated breach of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and the Trump administration leveled a slate of fresh sanctions targeting an inner circle of officials around Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

November 4, 2019
In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, reviews armed forces with Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, during a graduation ceremony at Iran's Air Defense Academy, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Khamenei, speaking at the academy, was quoted as saying that U.S. and Western intelligence services "are making chaos" in the region. He urged Iraq and Lebanon to prioritize national security and respect for law while also saying the protesters' demands are "right." (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

U.S. hits Iranian supreme leader’s inner circle with sanctions

The Trump administration announced sanctions against 10 officials from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's inner circle on Monday, ramping up pressure against the Islamic republic on the 40th anniversary of its seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

November 4, 2019
Mohammad Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League, in New York, Monday, April 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Mohammed al-Issa warns U.S. on ending ISIS fight early

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: The death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a major victory against Islamist extremism, but the group's warped ideology -- one that has "distorted and tried to hijack Islam" -- remains very much alive and continues to prey on youths across the Mideast and beyond.

October 30, 2019