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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

The House of Representatives approved 393-0 a resolution declaring as "genocide" atrocities committed by the Islamic State against Christians, sending a strong signal to Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who has been deliberating for months. (Associated Press)

John Kerry to miss deadline on Christian genocide declaration

Secretary of State John F. Kerry will miss a deadline set by Congress for deciding whether atrocities carried out against Christians and other religious minorities by the Islamic State terror group in Syria and Iraq should be officially declared a "genocide."

March 16, 2016

Ukraine’s progress slowed by ‘dirty money,’ simmering conflict

The U.S.-backed government in Ukraine is burdened by "dirty money and dirty politics" and its frozen conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the nation's east is "heating up again," the State Department's point woman for European policy warned Tuesday.

March 15, 2016
Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, on June 16, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

ISIS recruits’ addresses, phone numbers leaked by defector in major intelligence break

In what could be a major intelligence break in the war against the Islamic State, American and European officials are poring over a list of some 22,000 suspected Islamic State recruits -- including operatives from the U.S., Britain and Canada -- whose addresses and phone numbers were on a memory stick leaked to a British news organization by a purported defector from the Syria-based terrorist group.

March 10, 2016
An Iraqi man weeps as he holds a Christian religious poster depicting Jesus and the Virgin Mary during a demonstration calling for governmental reform in Tahrir Square in Baghdad on Feb. 26. (Associated Press)

Genocide underway against Christians in Iraq and Syria, Catholic priest tells U.S.

A decade has gone by since the Rev. Douglas al-Bazi was kidnapped and had his teeth knocked out by Islamic jihadis in Baghdad, a nightmare that still haunts the Chaldean Catholic priest and one that fuels his quest to have the horror endured by his fellow Iraqi Christians be recognized for what it is: "genocide."

March 9, 2016
strategic allies: Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian (right) has agreed to let Russian President Vladimir Putin deploy a slew of military vehicles to a base just outside the Armenian capital of Yerevan. (Associated Press)

Armenia pulled into Russia-Turkey clash in Syria

The clash between Russia and Turkey is not just taking place in the skies over Syria. It's also spreading to the nearby Caucasus region, where a fresh wave of Russian military overtures to Armenia threatens to reignite a frozen conflict that has pitted Moscow against Ankara for decades.

March 2, 2016
Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

John Boehner says Iran elections are ‘phony,’ slams nuclear deal in first public speech

In his first public speech since disappearing from Washington's political scene four months ago, former House Speaker John Boehner on Friday hammered the Obama administration for striking last summer's nuclear accord and declared outright that the elections currently taking place in the Islamic republic are nothing but "a phony attempt to prop up an ailing regime."

February 26, 2016
"We believe China's legitimate security concerns must be taken into account, and a convincing explanation must be provided to China," said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, while conceding South Korea had the right to make its own decisions. "I don't think it's too much to ask." (Associated Press)

China grudgingly accepts U.S. missile shield deployment to South Korea

China's top diplomat said Thursday Beijing has "legitimate national security" concerns over the potential deployment of an advanced U.S. missile shield to South Korea in response to growing nuclear provocations from North Korea -- but Chinese leaders also respect that it will be up to Seoul to "make a final decision" on the matter.

February 25, 2016
South Korean protesters stage a rally to oppose the possible deployment of the United States' advanced defense system THAAD, a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, on Korea Peninsula, near the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. North Korea may be preparing to launch a rocket or missile, according to a U.S. defense official and expert analysis of commercial satellite imagery. The signs read " Oppose the deployment of THAAD." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

THAAD system: China says it might accept U.S. missile shield in South Korea

China's top diplomat says Beijing has "legitimate national security" concerns over the potential deployment of an advanced U.S. missile shield to South Korea in response to growing nuclear provocations from North Korea -- but Chinese leaders also respect that it will be up to Seoul to "make a final decision" on the matter.

February 25, 2016
Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, before the House Appropriations Committee on Foreign Operations hearing on the State Department’s fiscal 2017 budget request. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

John Kerry defends White House handling of Iran missile tests

Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Wednesday defended the Obama administration's decision not to punish Iran for carrying out two recent ballistic missile tests, but said that if another test occurs anytime soon, the White House might respond with fresh sanctions against Tehran.

February 24, 2016
Secretary of State John Kerry. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

John Kerry: U.S. has sent to the Kurds 41,000 grenades and 60,000 anti-tank rounds

The Obama administration's reliance on Kurdish militants to fight the Islamic State has prompted deep friction with Turkey, but Secretary of State John F. Kerry says U.S. weapons will continue to flow to the so-called peshmerga forces, with some 5 million rounds of ammunition expected to be delivered soon.

February 24, 2016
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani came to power in 2013 on a vow to repair relations with the West and to ease social freedoms in Iran and counter the influence of the country's hard-liners. (Associated Press)

Iran elections to test enthusiasm for Hassan Rouhani’s reformist agenda

Iran's voters go to the polls Friday in the first major test of public opinion in the Islamic republic since last summer's nuclear accord, a vote that may well determine whether President Hassan Rouhani has a green light to forge ahead with long-promised political and economic reforms in the nation.

February 22, 2016