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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

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
In this Oct. 12, 2017, file photo, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., presides over a markup of a bill to expand sanctions against Iran with respect to its ballistic missile program, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Royce says he will not seek re-election after serving out his 13th term. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

Capitol Hill foreign policy panels facing big changes

Big changes are coming for Capitol Hill's two most influential foreign policy bodies — even if the Republicans retain their House and Senate majorities during the midterm elections later this year.

January 16, 2018
Flowers, candles and a picture of Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic, who was shot dead Tuesday morning by still-unknown assailants, at the scene of the shooting in front of his office in the northern, Serb-dominated part of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. People from Kosovo's Serb minority say they are in shock over the killing of a moderate politician who was gunned down in an attack in a northern town. (AP Photo/Bojan Slavkovic)

Oliver Ivanovic, Kosovo Serb leader, gunned down; tensions rise

U.S. officials are scrambling to ease tension between Serbia and Kosovo after a local leader accused of war crimes the late-1990s conflict that tore through the region was gunned down Tuesday in a city sharply divided between ethnic Serbs and Albanians.

January 16, 2018
President Trump faces a Jan. 12 deadline to extend waivers of broad oil and energy sanctions against that were critical to getting Iran's commitment to the Obama-era nuclear accord. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump seen stopping short of killing Iran nuclear deal

With Tehran and U.S. allies in Europe stepping up pressure to preserve the 2015 Iranian nuclear accord, President Trump appears poised to back away from a threat to pull America out of the deal, opting instead for new, albeit more targeted, sanctions against Iranian officials and entities.

January 10, 2018
FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump, right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin talk during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam. A sweeping new report by congressional Democrats warns of deepening Russian interference throughout Europe and concludes that even as some Western democracies have responded with aggressive counter-measures, Trump has offered no strategic plan to bolster their efforts or safeguard the U.S. from again falling victim to the Kremlins systematic meddling. The 200-plus page report released by Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, comes without sign-off from Republicans on the panel. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Senate Democrats slam Trump with report on Russian meddling

Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hammered President Trump in a new report that claims his administration "has largely ignored" the ongoing threat of Russian meddling designed to undermine democracies across the Western world.

January 10, 2018
Pakistan's army spokesman Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor addresses a news conference in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

State Department announces indefinite freeze on security aid to Pakistan

The Trump administration on Thursday suspended nearly all bilateral security aid to Pakistan and called out the Islamabad government over its record on religious freedom, sending an already troubled relationship to a new low in a clash over how to conduct the war against terrorists.

January 4, 2018