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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

North Korea abruptly ended a 10-week pause in its weapons testing by launching what the Pentagon said was an intercontinental ballistic missile, apparently its longest-range test yet, a move that will escalate already high tensions with Washington. The Korean letters read "Fired ballistic missile." (Associated Press)

North Korea missile test flouts Donald Trump’s threats

North Korea fired what may be its most sophisticated ballistic missile ever Tuesday, flouting President Trump's threats and international efforts to halt the rogue nation's nuclear weapons program and kicking off what national security experts say is likely the first in a surge of new tests from the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the coming months.

November 28, 2017
Kim Yong-nam (left), North Korea's No. 2 political leader and head of its legislature, has been meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The length of a visit in August raised alarm bells in Washington. (Associated Press/File)

Fresh concern over possible Iran-North Korea nuclear links

A series of high-level meetings between Iranian and North Korean officials has prompted fresh concern in U.S. national security circles about the depth of military and ballistic missile technology cooperation between the two American adversaries, according to a Washington think tank.

November 28, 2017
Opposition Alliance presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla, center, talks to the press after a press conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Hondurans waited anxiously with no results released hours after polls closed for Sunday's presidential election, while both the president and his main challenger claimed victory after what appeared to be a heavy turnout by voters. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Salvador Nasralla, Honduras TV host, might win presidency

An ostentatious TV show host held the lead Monday in Honduras' presidential election -- a surprise development that prompted concern among U.S. officials who'd hoped the Central American nation's current, pro-Washington president would cruise to a second term.

November 27, 2017
With an appeal of "never again," Japanese visited Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima this year to mark the 72nd anniversary of the 1945 attack that killed 140,000 people. (Associated Press/File)

Japan debates constitution’s military passivism

A moral debate is raging across Japan over whether the pacifist constitution American occupiers installed 70 years ago after World War II should be revised so the nation can better prepare itself against a rising China and North Korean nuclear threats.

November 26, 2017
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon delivered the keynote address at the Global Rally for the Reunification of Korea at Seoul’s World Cup Stadium. (PHOTO CREDIT: HSA-UWC) **FILE**

Seoul interfaith rally calls for reunification of Korean peninsula

The risk is higher today than ever that threatening rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea could spiral toward war, says a former CIA director who joined a massive rally here of religious leaders from around the world on Saturday in call for peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

November 11, 2017
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, right, with CIA Director John Brennan, center, and FBI Director James Comey, left, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on cyberthreats. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Russia meddling report to Trump raises questions of motive

Fourteen days before President Trump took the oath of office, the Obama administration's intelligence chiefs made public a unanimous assessment claiming Russian operatives, under orders from President Vladimir Putin, had orchestrated an influence campaign to help Mr. Trump win the presidential contest.

November 8, 2017
Violence has broken out in the border areas between Iraqi and Kurdish forces, with tensions high after the Kurds' failed attempt to form their own country. U.S. officials say Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has been working to defuse the situation. (Associated press)

Iraqi-Kurd feud escalates, but U.S. hopes to defuse tensions

The Trump administration is struggling to prevent a new powder keg from exploding in Iraq, where violence between the central government in Baghdad and the nation's Kurds in the north has displaced more than 180,000 people since the failed Kurdish independence push in September.

November 2, 2017
President Trump is expected to get warm receptions at the start of his trip to Asia, but he will be navigating a delicate diplomatic challenge when me arrives in Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose strong political position may make him less likely to be conciliatory. (Associated Press/File)

North Korea threat looms over Donald Trump’s Asia trip

The North Korean nuclear menace threatens to overshadow a large and diverse agenda as President Trump embarks Friday on the first major Asia visit of his presidency -- an 11-day tour to include stops in five countries, a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and a possible meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

November 1, 2017
Kurdistan Regional President Masoud Barzani. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Masoud Barzani’s resignation leads to Kurdish infighting

Friction between Iraqi Kurdish political factions soared Monday, a day after longtime regional leader Masoud Barzani announced his resignation following weeks of turmoil surrounding his failed push for an independent Kurdistan.

October 30, 2017
Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson and Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani smile before a meeting, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017, in Doha, Qatar. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool) (Associated Pres)

Yemen sanctions by U.S. backed by country’s Arab neighbors

Qatar joined other Arab powers Wednesday in a U.S.-backed push to level fresh sanctions against individuals and organizations accused of financing the Islamic State and al Qaeda in Yemen -- an unexpected shift by the tiny Persian Gulf nation that has been diplomatically blackballed by its Arab neighbors for allegedly supporting terrorists.

October 25, 2017
Iman Osman, a Tunisian woman who escaped from the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria, was detained by the Kurdish anti-terrorism units. Western governments have tacitly handed down guidance to the forces uprooting the remnants of Islamic State in Raqqa and beyond on how to handle their citizens who joined the extremist group by the thousands. (Associated Press/File)

ISIS fighters return to home countries by thousands

Thousands of foreign fighters who flocked to fight with Islamic State in its Syrian and Iraqi strongholds have returned to their home countries as the terrorist group's territory shrinks, according to an extensive survey from a private security-intelligence firm, which also found that Russia has been the No. 1 source country of foreign fighters.

October 24, 2017
In this undated file photo released by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant website via AP, file)

Russia is No. 1 source country for ISIS foreign fighters: Report

Russia has been the No. 1 source country of foreign fighters for the Islamic State, according to a new report by a private security-intelligence firm, which also claims that thousands of the terror group's fighters have returned to their home countries after losing territory in Syria and Iraq.

October 24, 2017
Hillary Clinton is accused of direct involvement in suspected corruption involving a 2010 uranium deal with Russia. (Associated Press/File)

Hillary Clinton, Russia uranium case informant’s testimony urged

A controversial 2010 deal that cleared the way for a Kremlin-backed company to gain control of a huge chunk of America's uranium supply is getting new scrutiny as a Capitol Hill inquiry gears up to probe the Obama administration's suspected silencing of an FBI informant who reportedly had information on high-level corruption by Russian nuclear officials who engineered the deal.

October 23, 2017