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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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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
French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump stand at attention during an official welcoming ceremony in the courtyard of the Invalides in Paris, Thursday, July 13, 2017. Trump is in Paris for a high profile two-day visit during which he will be the guest of honour of his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the annual Bastille Day parade. (AP Photo / Matthieu Alexandre)

Protesters set up ‘No Trump Zone’ in Paris

Protesters angry about President Trump's visit with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron set up a symbolic "No Trump Zone" here Thursday to kick off what activists say will be a series of anti-Trump rallies while he's in town as an honored guest at the nation's Bastille Day ceremonies slated for Friday.

July 13, 2017
Europol director Rob Wainwright poses for a picture during an interview in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. The Islamic State group is likely to carry out new attacks in the European Union in the near future, probably targeting countries that are members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the extremist organization in Syria and Iraq, EU police agency Europol said in a report published Friday. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Brexit negotiations stall on counterterrorism strategy

It's one of those ironies that could only happen in the transnational, cross-cultural politics of the European Union: The EU's top counterterrorism cop hails from a nation that will soon no longer be part of the bloc he protects.

July 12, 2017
Europol's director Rob Wainwright said as many as 2,500 European-born fighters are likely to be in "various stages of returning" to the continent after joining the Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria. (Associated Press/File)

Europe braces for ISIS fighters returning from battlefield

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Europe's top intelligence and counterterrorism officials are bracing for a surge of battle-hardened Islamic State foreign fighters returning home to the continent as the jihadi group loses its territorial base in the Middle East, the head of the European Union's main law enforcement agency says.

July 12, 2017
A demonstrator holds a poster with a photo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the writing "festival of democracy with special guests" as a dancing protest against the Group of 20 summit passes by the Rote Flora squat in Hamburg, Germany on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump on G-20 world stage with Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel

When President Trump arrives late Thursday for his inaugural gathering of leaders from the world's 20 largest economies, he will be contending not only with Russian President Vladimir Putin in their fraught first face-to-face meeting, but also with host Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, an experienced leader who has clashed with Mr. Trump and hopes to keep the summit tightly focused on her favored agenda.

July 5, 2017
The National Council of Resistance of Iran holds a boisterous rally each year in France with current and former U.S., European and Middle Eastern officials speaking out in support of regime change in Tehran. (Associated Press/File_

Iranian dissidents rally in France for the overthrow of Iran’s theocracy

Thousands of supporters of an Iranian dissident group rallied here Saturday for the overthrow of Tehran's theocratic regime at an event that featured speeches by several Trump administration allies -- including Newt Gingrich and Rudolph W. Giuliani -- as well as the former head of Saudi intelligence.

July 1, 2017