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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

This image made from video posted on a militant website on Monday, April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. Al-Baghdadi acknowledged in his first video since June 2014 that IS lost the war in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz that was captured last month by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. (Al-Furqan media via AP)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader, appears in video for first time in 5 years

He may have lost his hold on territory in Syria and Iraq and barely eluded the U.S.-backed forces who destroyed his "caliphate," but unbroken Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi re-emerged Monday, appearing for the first time in five years in a crude jihadi video to declare that his global terrorist organization is far from dead.

April 29, 2019
In this Thursday, April 25, 2019 photo, a policeman stands guard, as surveyors work at St. Sebastian's Church, where a suicide bomber blew himself up on Easter Sunday in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Nearly a week later, the smell of death is everywhere, though the bodies are long gone. For more than 50 years, St. Sebastian’s had been the scene of weddings and baptisms, of Christmas celebrations and countless Masses. The walls are now blackened near where the bomber stood when he killed himself, spraying shrapnel in every direction. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Sri Lanka widens Islamic State manhunt

Sri Lankan authorities said Friday they're hunting for as many as 140 people suspected of links to the Islamic State terror group in an evolving investigation following the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people at churches and hotels in the South Asian nation.

April 26, 2019
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un (center) surrounded by Russian and North Korean officials walk after arriving in Vladivostok, Russia, on Wednesday. Mr. Kim arrived for his much-anticipated summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin summit to discuss North Korea’s workforce

Kim Jong-un's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week may be a symbolic move by the North Korean leader to show he has a powerful friend in Moscow, but sources familiar with Mr. Kim's agenda say a key focus of the meeting will be allowing more than 10,000 North Korean laborers to remain in Russia despite U.S. demands.

April 24, 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a visit a shipyard in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Putin said the government will pursue an ambitious navy modernization effort. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Donald Trump should exploit Russian ‘weaknesses’ but keep INF Treaty intact: Report

The Trump administration's abandonment of a key Cold War-era nuclear treaty won't do much to counter Russian military provocations and information warfare around the world, according to a new national security policy report that says the White House would be wise to focus more on a strategy of exploiting Moscow's economic and political weaknesses.

April 24, 2019
Saeb Erekat, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks to journalists after a meeting between Abbas and Jordan's King Abdullah II, at the Royal Palace, in Amman, Jordan, Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. (Khalil Mazraawi, Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Saeb Erekat says Trump broke pledge by moving embassy to Jerusalem

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: The Palestinians' outspoken resistance to U.S. mediation in the Middle East peace process is justified because President Trump broke a promise two years ago to avoid any moves before announcing his blueprint that unfairly favored Israel, according to longtime chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat.

April 23, 2019
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to his supporters after polls for Israel's general elections closed in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Benjamin Netanyahu win in Israel election over Benny Gantz projected

The stars appeared to be aligned Tuesday night for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to win a fourth consecutive term after a hotly contested election in which a new centrist party headed by former military chief Benny Gantz won a significant chunk of the country's parliamentary seats.

April 9, 2019
Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz ramped up his rhetoric, telling voters Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "is not the messiah, and he's not a legend that can't be replaced" in elections Tuesday. (Associated Press/File)

Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz election Israel’s defining moment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the favorite to win Tuesday's general election, but just about everyone in Israel agrees it's going to be a squeaker as voters decide whether to give the Teflon stalwart of conservatism a fourth consecutive term and make him the longest-serving leader in the nation's history.

April 7, 2019
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un listens to President Donald Trump speak during a meeting, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

North Korea courts Russia after Trump-Kim summit failure

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is deepening his regime's relations with Russia just as South Korea engages in a charm offensive with the Trump administration five weeks after U.S.-North Korean denuclearization talks broke down.

April 3, 2019
The rift among Arab nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council is no closer to resolution today than when it began in June 2017, a Qatari diplomat said. (Associated Press/File)

Lolwah Al-Khater, Qatar diplomat, sees long Saudi feud

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: A top Qatari diplomat says the damaging feud between her country and Saudi Arabia that has divided the two American allies over the past two years and created a Middle East headache for the Trump administration is unlikely to be put to rest anytime soon.

March 31, 2019
From left: FBI Director James B. Comey, CIA Director John O. Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper sit together in the front row before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance in this Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, file photo at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

John Brennan and James Comey, Obama intelligence chiefs, under fire after Mueller report

Special counsel Robert Mueller's finding that there was no Trump campaign conspiracy with Russia to steal the 2016 election has unleashed a tsunami of outrage toward Obama-era intelligence chiefs, particularly former CIA Director John O. Brennan and former FBI Director James B. Comey, who are accused of pushing the allegation during congressional hearings, in social media posts and in highly charged interviews on television over the past two years.

March 28, 2019