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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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Articles by Guy Taylor

A U.S. C-17 sits at the Nevatim Air Base in the desert in Israel, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. The aircraft arrived Friday with crates of American munitions for Israel. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the second high-level U.S. official sent by President Joe Biden to visit Israel in two days, visited the base Friday afternoon and saw firsthand some of the weapons and security assistance that Washington rapidly delivered to Israel after it was attacked. (AP Photos/Lolita Baldor)

State Department official quits over U.S. weapons transfers to Israel

A top official within the State Department office overseeing U.S. arms transfers to foreign powers has resigned in protest over what he says is the Biden administration's "expanded and expedited" movement of weapons to Israel as it blockades and carries out air strikes on Gaza in its war with Hamas.

October 19, 2023
Top Hamas armed commander Ayman Nofal is greeted by Hamas supporters upon his arrival to his home in Nusairat refugee camp in the Central Gaza strip, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011. Hamas’ military wing, the Qassam Brigades, said Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, that an Israeli airstrike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed top militant commander, Ayman Nofal. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) **FILE**

Third Hamas leader killed in Gaza bombing in recent days

An Israeli airstrike killed a top Hamas commander in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third high-level operative of the Palestinian terrorist group taken out by Israel's bombardment of the territory in recent days.

October 17, 2023
Couples from around the world attend a mass wedding ceremony at the Cheong Shim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, South Korea, on Feb. 7, 2020. South Korean and foreign couples exchanged or reaffirmed marriage vows in the Unification Church's mass wedding arranged by Hak Ja Han Moon, wife of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the controversial founder of the Unification Church. The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has revealed long-suspected, little-talked-of links between him and the Unification Church. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Unification Church vows to fight ‘biased’ disbandment request

The Japan branch of the Unification Church is vowing to wage a concerted legal battle in response to what it calls a politically motivated attack by Japanese lawmakers, who filed a request last week to disband the church formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.

October 15, 2023
Palestinians look for survivors after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. It will want to punish Hamas like never before, but without killing so many Palestinian civilians that it loses international support. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Hamas clash throws U.S. regional diplomacy into question

The U.S.-led push to normalize relations between Israel and major Arab nations -- started by President Trump's Abraham Accords in 2020 and cautiously pursued by President Biden -- has been thrown into confusion by the surging clash between Israel and Hamas.

October 12, 2023
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un speaks during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (Vladimir Smirnov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Rights advocate: Few signs of progress addressing North Korean abuses

Ten years after a special United Nations commission found that the North Korean regime's most egregious human rights violations amounted to "crimes against humanity," the U.N. Security Council has yet to make a referral of the case to the International Criminal Court.

October 3, 2023
President Joe Biden addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Seeking backup, Biden struggles to move the needle with ‘Global South’

A big question as the annual U.N. General Assembly concludes is whether the Biden administration managed to garner fresh support from the so-called "Global South" to align behind U.S. priorities on the world stage, particularly when it comes to backing Ukraine against Russia.

September 24, 2023
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

South Korean president warns of Russia-North Korea nuclear collaboration

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a sharp warning Wednesday about growing Russia-North Korea strategic ties, telling the U.N. General Assembly that Seoul and its allies "will not stand idly by" if Moscow is helping Pyongyang advance its nuclear weapons program.

September 20, 2023
Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Zelenskyy accuses Russia of ‘genocide’ in fiery U.N. address

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday accused Russia of committing "genocide" by abducting thousands of children from Ukraine, calling during a fiery speech at the United Nations for the world not to tolerate the "evil" undergirding Moscow's actions.

September 19, 2023
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres acknowledges the audience applause after addressing the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

U.N. chief warns A.I. may lead world into ‘more danger than we can control’

World leaders should quickly consider creating a global organization akin to the International Atomic Energy Agency to address both the benefits and the dangers of artificial intelligence -- specifically, those associated with the fast-emerging realm of "generative A.I." capable of creating text, images and videos.

September 19, 2023
Assault unit commander from the 3rd Assault Brigade who goes by the call sign 'Fedia,' passes by the body of a dead Russian soldier at the frontline in Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. The 3rd Assault Brigade announced Friday they had recaptured the war-ravaged settlement which lies 10 kilometers (6 miles) south of Russian-occupied city of Bakhmut, in the country's embattled east. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Zelenskyy purges more officials as fighting rages in east

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy dismissed six top officials inside the Ministry of Defense on Monday in what appears to be a continuing crackdown amid reports of corruption inside the country's defense establishment.

September 18, 2023
In this photo released by Government of Primorsky Krai Region, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un waves as he boards his train prior to leaving Artyom, near Vladivostok, Russian Far East on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. (Government of Primorsky Krai Region via AP)

Biden administration praises N. Korean defectors, human rights activists

The Biden administration on Sunday elevated its push to draw attention to human rights abuses by the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, asserting that the regime "continues to exploit its own citizens, including through mass mobilizations of school children and forced labor."

September 17, 2023