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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

At President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on April 7, he informed Chinese President Xi Jinping over a "beautiful" piece of chocolate cake that he had authorized airstrikes against Syria. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s foreign policy makes impact

It started with taking a protocol-shattering phone call from Taiwan. Then came an almost immediate realignment with Saudi Arabia against Iran, 59 Tomahawk missiles fired at Syria, an increasingly combative posture toward Russia, a massive military strike in Afghanistan and a level of North Korea brinkmanship not seen from U.S. administrations in decades.

April 27, 2017
The flow of battle-hardened jihadis fleeing the black banners of the Islamic State in the face of the coalition onslaught in Syria and Iraq, seeking to rejoin their brothers in arms in al Qaeda, is already underway, a top national security analyst said. (Associated Press/File)

ISIS, al Qaeda in talks for terror merger

The Islamic State group and al Qaeda, long rivals for supremacy in the jihadi struggle, are feeling more pressure to combine as the Islamic State loses its territorial base in Syria and Iraq and the still-potent terrorist network founded by Osama bin Laden prepares to welcome legions of foreign fighters fleeing the advancing U.S.-backed coalition, analysts and officials in the region say.

April 26, 2017
A U.S. Air Force U-2 spy plane prepares to land at Osan Air Base in South Korea. South Korea's military said Tuesday that North Korea held major live-fire drills in an area around its eastern coastal town of Wonsan as it marked the anniversary of the founding of its military. (Associated Press)

Senate to meet for North Korea briefing at White House

President Trump's top security aides will host an unusual White House briefing on North Korea for the entire U.S. Senate on Wednesday amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and pressure on Washington to organize an effective response to Pyongyang's increasingly brazen military provocations and nuclear tests.

April 25, 2017
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, welcomes Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, prior to the start of Mattis confirmation hearing before the committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

John McCain: Donald Trump needs to get tougher on China about North Korea

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain suggested Tuesday that he'll push the Trump administration to take a harder line toward China over North Korea's nuclear provocations when senators head to the White House Wednesday for an unusual group briefing on Pyongyang's activities.

April 25, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson criticized the Iran nuclear deal. "The Trump administration has no intention of passing the buck," he said Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Rex Tillerson promises hard look at Iranian aggression

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson slammed the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday -- just a day after the Trump administration had begrudgingly acknowledged that Tehran is complying with the terms of the 2015 multinational accord negotiated under former President Obama.

April 19, 2017
This Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006, file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an F-15C Eagle from the 12th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, flying next to a Russian Tu-95 "Bear" bomber, right, during a Russian exercise which brought the bomber near the west coast of Alaska. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force) ** FILE **

U.S. intercepts 2 Russian bombers off Alaska’s coast

U.S. military officials said a pair of American fighter jets intercepted and escorted two Russian bombers away from Alaska's coastline during a high-stakes encounter in international airspace Monday.

April 18, 2017
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, delivers a speech during a rally of supporters a day after the referendum, outside the Presidential Palace, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, April 17, 2017. Turkey's main opposition party urged the country's electoral board Monday to cancel the results of a landmark referendum that granted sweeping new powers to Erdogan, citing what it called substantial voting irregularities. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Donald Trump, unlike allies, congratulates Recep Tayyip Erdogan on referendum

Sunday's referendum narrowly granting expansive new powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may distance Turkey from the pro-democracy forces of Western Europe, but could bring it closer to Washington, where the Trump administration has shown itself eager to build counterterrorism alliances with perceived strongmen in the Middle East.

April 17, 2017
President Donald Trump, joined by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, speaks during a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Trump was meeting again with his Chinese counterpart Friday, with U.S. missile strikes on Syria adding weight to his threat to act unilaterally against the nuclear weapons program of China's ally, North Korea. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

World divides over Trump Syria strikes, awaits next steps

Russia and Iran expressed outrage and U.N. officials responded with caution to President Trump's punitive missile strike against Syria Thursday evening over its suspected use of chemical weapons, but Mr. Trump's first use of U.S. military force also was met with expressions of support for the action from around the world.

April 7, 2017
Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, authored a letter seeking documents related to federal agencies' relationship with former British spy Christopher Steele, who authored a salacious dossier of President Trump's supposed activities in Russia. (Associated Press/File)

Devin Nunes: Susan Rice ‘unmasking’ revelation worth losing investigation leadership

Republican insiders say Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, got the "genie out of the bottle" regarding suspected misconduct by President Obama's top national security aide, Susan E. Rice, and that his surprise decision Thursday to step aside from leading the panel's probe into Russian meddling in the presidential election was worth it.

April 6, 2017
As President Trump prepares to host his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, a reversal has emerged: The U.S. leader is seen as a wild card, skeptical of trade deals. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump, Xi Jinping to meet at Florida summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping's calculated style will come face-to-face with President Trump's off-the-cuff approach to diplomacy Thursday when the two gather at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for what could be the highest stakes U.S.-China summit in more than a decade.

April 6, 2017
FILE - In this July 7, 2016 file photo, National Security Adviser Susan Rice walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, to board Marine One with then President Barack Obama. Rice is in the center of a political storm, drawn in by new revelations about her handling of intelligence reports in the waning days of the Obama administration. According to a U.S. official, President Donald Trump’s national security aides discovered after the inauguration that Rice had asked for the identities of Trump associates who were referenced in intelligence reports. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Susan Rice denies wrongdoing, political motives, schemes

Former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice categorically denied Tuesday that she did anything wrong by unmasking the identities of Trump campaign officials swept up in U.S. surveillance, while the Republican chairman of a Senate probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election said his panel may want her to testify.

April 4, 2017
Records of former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice that were shipped to a heavily secure archive for Barack Obama's presidential library will eventually be reviewed by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, two high-level sources told The Washington Times. (Associated Press/File)

Susan Rice key in ‘unmasking’ of Donald Trump campaign officials

The Obama administration's national security adviser played a central role in "unmasking" several Trump campaign officials who had been swept up in U.S. surveillance operations against foreign targets during last year's presidential election campaign, according to current White House officials and sources on Capitol Hill.

April 3, 2017
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., right, and Vice Chairman Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., listen to testimony during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 30, 2017, on Russian intelligence activities. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Senate intel chief: Americans ‘deserve to hear the truth’ on Russian meddling

The American public "deserves to hear the truth about possible Russian involvement in our elections," the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday as the panel opened its first hearing in what is expected to be a monthslong probe and public examination of Moscow's activities.

March 30, 2017
Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson will meet with Turkish officials in Ankara Thursday to discuss the ongoing battle against the Islamic State. Turkish officials are concerned that the U.S. is backing several Kurdish militias — which the Turkish government labels as terrorist groups — in the fight for the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in Syria. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Islamic State coalition may get bumpy in Turkey talks

Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson faces what could be the most delicate and complicated diplomatic trip of his tenure so far when he meets Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara Thursday for bilateral talks on Syria, Iraq, the Kurds and Mr. Erdogan's obsession with U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.

March 29, 2017
President Trump's team wasted little time putting together a new budget for the rest of the fiscal year. Officials have already quietly pressured Congress to carve nearly $3 billion out of diplomatic programs that had been previously approved. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump White House budget asks for almost $3 billion in diplomatic program cuts

The Trump White House isn't waiting for the new fiscal year to start cutting back federal spending for the State Department and foreign aid, as administration officials have already quietly pressured Congress to carve nearly $3 billion out of diplomatic programs previously approved for the current fiscal year.

March 29, 2017
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes faces growing calls for him to step away from the panel's Russia investigation as revelations about a secret source meeting on White House grounds raised questions about his independence. (Associated Press)

Devin Nunes, Intelligence Committee chairman, firm in partisan fire over Russia probe

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes showed no sign of buckling beneath growing Democratic demands Tuesday that he recuse himself from a probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, as the White House blasted the media anew over what officials say is its obsession with alleged Trump campaign connections to Moscow.

March 28, 2017