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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

In this Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, file photo, aid workers stand near a convoy of vehicles loaded with food and other supplies organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross, working alongside the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the United Nations, makes it's way to the besieged town of Madaya, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) northwest of Damascus, Syria. Madaya has been blockaded for months by government troops and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Opposition activists and aid groups have reported several deaths from starvation in recent weeks. (AP Photo)

Red Cross confident U.S. still top donor under Donald Trump

A top International Committee of the Red Cross official expressed confidence Thursday that the United States will remain its top donor, saying the organization is working well with the administration despite President Trump's push to dramatically cut the budgets for the State Department and foreign aid.

February 1, 2018
Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani attends the US Qatar Strategic Dialogue at the State Department, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

ISIS still mortal threat to Middle East, Qatar foreign minister warns

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Islamic State remains a mortal threat to the region despite its recent battlefield defeats, Qatar's foreign minister warned in an interview Wednesday, cautioning that the terrorist group could rise again if Washington and its Arab allies fail to address the root causes fueling religious extremism.

January 31, 2018
An Israeli border policemen guards the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv as other Israelis line up for U.S. visas. U.S. officials say President Donald Trump is poised to again delay his campaign promise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. But they say he'll likely temper the blow to his supporters by declaring the holy city as Israel's capital. (AP Photo/Eitan Hess-Ashkenazi, File)

Trump vows to punish nations criticizing Jerusalem embassy move

President Trump doubled down Tuesday night on his vow to stop U.S. foreign aid from going to countries that stood against his recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American embassy there from Tel Aviv.

January 30, 2018
Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, left, next to Qatar's Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah, shakes hands with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, ‎at the State Department, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Tillerson, Mattis praise Qatar despite ongoing rift with Saudis

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says Qatar has made "significant progress to improve efforts to combat terrorism," despite ongoing claims by other Arab powers that the tiny Persian Gulf nation backs jihadi groups such as Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

January 30, 2018
This April 13, 2016 file photo shows the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

CIA ramping up counterintelligence amid debate over Chinese penetration

CIA Director Mike Pompeo says he's taken aggressive measures over the past year to improve the agency's counterintelligence operations -- an assertion that comes amid heated debate over the scope of China's penetration into the U.S. intelligence community following last week's arrest of a Chinese-American former CIA case officer accused of spying for Beijing.

January 23, 2018
FILE - In this file image made from undated video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea's KRT on Sept. 3, 2017, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un holds the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. Japan's public broadcaster mistakenly sent an alert warning citizens of a North Korean missile launch and urging them to seek immediate shelter, then retracted it minutes later, days after a similar error in Hawaii. NHK television issued the message Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018 on its internet and mobile news sites as well as on Twitter, saying North Korea appeared to have fired a missile at Japan. NHK deleted its tweet after several minutes, issued a correction and apologized several times on air. (KRT via AP Video, file)

Kim Jong-un may be getting bad intel about Trump’s plans, CIA says

CIA Director Mike Pompeo says U.S. spies are wary that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may not be receiving truthful briefings from the circle of regime officials surrounding the dictator on how serious the Trump administration is about neutralizing Pyongyang's nuclear threat by any means necessary.

January 23, 2018
Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said the Trump administration has an open-ended commitment to remain in parts of Syria to contain Islamic State. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s Syria policy raises tensions

The Trump administration is struggling with the contradictions of its own policy for Syria, insisting that it's not creating a permanent Kurdish enclave inside the country but vowing that the U.S. will stay involved indefinitely by training a Kurd-majority ground force to maintain security and prevent a resurgence of Islamic State.

January 18, 2018
India on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2025, test-launched a nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile that is designed to use the country’s vast network of railways to avoid detection by enemy forces. The Agni Prime missile (not pictured here) was fired from a rail-based launcher pulled by an Indian Railways locomotive. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said the successful mission demonstrated India’s growing strategic deterrence capabilities. In this photo, India's Agni-V missile, with a range of 3,100 miles, is launched in 2012 from Wheeler Island in the Bay of Bengal. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

India’s ICBM test sends warning to China

India test-fired a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead Thursday, the first such test in more than a year in a show of force by New Delhi that local reports said was designed to send a message to rival China.

January 18, 2018
In this Oct. 13, 2017, filephoto, President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Donald Trump claims Russia undermining U.S. on North Korea

President Trump said Wednesday that Russia is undermining U.S. attempts to economically isolate North Korea, suggesting that Moscow is giving Pyongyang vital access to oil and coal supplies in violation of international sanctions.

January 17, 2018