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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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"We need to establish a relationship of respect, expressing desires for cooperation and setting aside propaganda," said Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Mexican presidential front-runner who casts himself as the ultimate political outsider. (Associated Press/File)

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador calls out Donald Trump during speech in Washington

The man who could be Mexico's next president came to Washington on Tuesday and sharply criticized President Trump's push to build a wall along the border Tuesday, arguing the problem of illegal drugs flowing north from Mexico is fueled by U.S. consumption and won't solved by more security measures.

September 5, 2017
In this photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, South Korea's Hyunmoo II ballistic missile is fired during an exercise at an undisclosed location in South Korea, Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. In South Korea, the nation's military said it conducted a live-fire exercise simulating an attack on North Korea's nuclear test site to "strongly warn" Pyongyang over the latest nuclear test. Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the drill involved F-15 fighter jets and the country's land-based "Hyunmoo" ballistic missiles. The released live weapons "accurately struck" a target in the sea off the country's eastern coast, the JCS said. (South Korea Defense Ministry via AP)

Military strike on North Korea one U.S. option after hydrogen bomb test

The Trump administration was weighing all options Sunday night, including a retaliatory military strike, in response to North Korea's test of a powerful hydrogen bomb that Pyongyang claimed could be mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.

September 3, 2017
As the U.S. coalition continues its campaign against the Islamic State in Raqqa, many are resigned to the reality that Syrian President Bashar Assad will hold on to power. (Associated Press)

Syria’s Bashar Assad nears civil war victory

Syrian President Bashar Assad is sounding increasingly confident that he will emerge as the victor of his nation's 6-year-old civil war — an assessment that key American allies in the region and a top former U.S. diplomat appear to have accepted.

August 31, 2017
The North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile on Tuesday as leader Kim Jong-un called for more ballistic missile tests targeting the Pacific Ocean. (Associated Press)

North Korea missile answers Donald Trump’s rhetoric

President Trump has brought a new toughness to U.S. rhetoric toward North Korea, but the Kim Jong-un regime in Pyongyang showed anew this week that it still has the power to decide when and where to escalate the crisis in the region over its nuclear programs and missile tests.

August 29, 2017
South Korean army soldiers aim their machine guns during the annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise in Yongin, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. In a first, North Korea on Tuesday fired a midrange ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload that flew over Japan and splashed into the northern Pacific Ocean, officials said. The aggressive missile launch — likely the longest ever from North Korea — over the territory of a close U.S. ally sends a clear message of defiance as Washington and Seoul conduct war games nearby. (Hong Gi-won/Yonhap via AP)

South Korean jets simulate strike to ‘wipe out’ Kim Jong-un

South Korean fighter jets scrambled Tuesday in response to North Korea's latest ballistic missile test with an aggressive live fire drill that authorities say showed Seoul's ability to surgically destroy Pyongyang's leadership if necessary.

August 29, 2017
Analysts say Iranian Atomic Chief Ali Akbar Salehi's threat to enrich uranium will force Europe to pressure the U.S. not to abandon the nuclear deal. (Associated Press)

Iran boast on enrichment serves as warning to Trump

Iran's boast this week that it needs only days to ramp up the uranium enrichment needed to produce a nuclear bomb added a new layer of complexity to an internal White House debate over whether President Trump should declare Tehran in violation of the 2015 nuclear accord.

August 24, 2017
Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson threaded a diplomatic needle last week by backing up President Trump's strong rhetoric against North Korea and immediately adding that he didn't believe there was any imminent threat of a nuclear attack. (Associated Press/File)

Rex Tillerson tempers Donald Trump’s rhetoric

President Trump is in front of the rhetorical brinkmanship with North Korea, but it's Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson who has the tough behind-the-scenes role of managing fallout from the administration's first genuine international crisis, sparked by reports that Pyongyang may now have a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a missile that could hit the U.S. mainland.

August 13, 2017
This image made from video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea's KRT on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, shows what was said to be North Korea leader Kim Jung Un, center, applauding after the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest. North Korea’s announcement that it is finalizing a plan to launch four ballistic missiles over Japan toward the island of Guam has touched off a series of fiery threats from President Donald Trump and upped tensions between Pyongyang and Washington to a whole new level. (KRT via AP Video)

North Korea says Trump ‘better talk and act properly’

The rhetorical brinksmanship between Pyongyang and Washington escalated anew on Saturday, with North Korean state media circulating a report warning that the Trump administration "had better talk and act properly" unless it wants "the American empire to meet its tragic doom."

August 12, 2017
Despite North Korean bluster that it has the ability to launch a nuclear missile at U.S. bases in the Pacific, and President Trump's heated response, diplomats and politicians countered the threat of conflict is overblown. (Associated Press)

Rex Tillerson, James Mattis back up Donald Trump’s message to North Korea

The State and Defense departments provided backup Wednesday to President Trump's threat a day earlier to rain down "fire and fury like the world has never seen" if North Korea did not curb its nuclear programs, but there was little sign Pyongyang was seeking to ease its threats against the U.S. and its allies in the region.

August 9, 2017
"If I was able to, I would turn back time by many, many years so that I could have prepared the whole government and the authorities for the situation, which hit us out of the blue in the late summer of 2015," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Germany’s Syria refugee integration slow, improving

Germany is struggling to integrate an unprecedented influx of asylum seekers since 2015, when Chancellor Angela Merkel won praise from human rights groups by announcing that the nation would allow in more than 1 million refugees from Syria and other mainly Middle Eastern war zones.

August 8, 2017
President Trump's intense rhetoric mirrored in a way the often apocalyptic, belligerent tone North Korea has long used to threaten its neighbors, heightening fears that the escalating rhetorical war could lead one side or the other to miscalculate. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump threatens to rain ‘fire and fury’ on North Korea

Concern of an armed clash over North Korea's nuclear weapons program reached new heights Tuesday as an angry President Trump warned that Pyongyang could soon face "fire and fury like the world has never seen" amid reports that the North has managed to build a nuclear bomb small enough to fit inside an intercontinental ballistic missile.

August 8, 2017
Bolstered by new harsher sanctions from the U.N., the U.S. and North Korea's neighbors are joining to isolate Pyongyang over its missile program. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump hails U.N.’s vote to further sanction North Korea

The Trump administration says it has new momentum to expand international pressure on North Korea following a unanimous U.N. Security Council vote to ramp up economic sanctions as punishment for Pyongyang's recent long-range ballistic missile tests.

August 6, 2017
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who supports sanctions against Russia, is unlikely to lose elections next month, but the nation's domestic intelligence agency says Moscow can be expected to settle for shenanigans that weaken the public's "faith in democracy." (Associated Press/File)

Germany expects Russia election meddling

Intelligence officials here are on high alert, bracing for a wave of cyberattacks, embarrassing information leaks and fake news stories spread on social media as part of an expected Russian campaign to sow political discord ahead of next month's German federal elections.

August 6, 2017
President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Saad Hariri confident on aid after meeting Trump

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday rejected the notion his tiny and diverse country -- home to both Sunni and Shia Muslim populations as well as Christians -- is jammed in the middle of a growing Middle East power struggle between the Sunni Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Shia-dominated Iran.

July 25, 2017
French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, accompanied President Trump and first lady Melania Trump in the courtyard at the Invalides in Paris after an official welcoming ceremony on Thursday. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump, with Emmanuel Macron, downplays Russia scandal

President Trump on Thursday hailed the results of the Syrian cease-fire that he negotiated with Russian President Vladimir Putin and downplayed the furor over his son's contact with a Russian lawyer as standard practice in the bare-knuckled world of presidential campaigns.

July 13, 2017
Flowers were placed on the Promenade des Anglais last year at the scene of the truck attack in Nice that killed 86 people celebrating France's Bastille Day. The massacre was a kind of watershed moment that was followed by a macabre wave of similar low-tech terrorist strikes in several Western European nations. (Associated Press/File)

Nice’s Bastille Day muted by terror attack memories

The enduring pain courses just beneath the surface in Nice, as it does in other French towns and cities that have been targets of attacks orchestrated or inspired by Islamic State in the past year.

July 13, 2017