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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

Choe Ryong Hae (center), director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army (KPA), and other delegates (from left) Kim Hyong Jun, deputy minister Foreign Affairs, Ri Yong Gil, colonel general of KPA, Kim Song Nam, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers party of Korea, and Kim Su Gil, lieutenant general of KPA, pose before leaving Pyongyang Airport for China on May 22, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Ri Yong-gil, North Korea’s army chief of staff, executed: Report

A top North Korean military general was executed this month on corruption and other charges, according to a South Korean news report Wednesday, sparking speculation that ruler Kim Jong-un may have deemed the official as an internal threat to his grip on power in Pyongyang.

February 10, 2016
"In my 50-plus years in the intelligence business, I cannot recall a more diverse array of crises and challenges than we face today," Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said at a daylong Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday. (Associated Press)

James Clapper, intel chief: North Korea has restarted plutonium reactor

President Obama's top intelligence official warned Tuesday that the country is facing an unusually broad range of security threats, from Islamic State recruitment of extremists inside the U.S., to Iranian support for terrorism, to the expanding pursuit by Russia and China of cyberspying technology and weapons capable of neutralizing U.S. satellites orbiting the earth.

February 9, 2016
** FILE ** Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States. (Associated Press)

Russian ambassador sees U.S. ties at post-Cold War low

Russia's top diplomat in the U.S. said in a briefing with reporters Monday that relations between Washington and Moscow are in "a deplorably difficult state" and have fallen in recent years to their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.

February 8, 2016
People carry a body of one of the migrants that drowned as they were trying to reach Greece, at a port in Bakilesir, Turkey, on Feb. 8, 2016. Turkey's state-run news agency says dozens of migrants attempting to reach Greece have drowned after their boat sank off the Turkish coast. The boat capsized in the Bay of Edremit, which is just a short distance away from the Greek island of Lesbos. The drownings came as Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting Ankara to discuss the migrant crisis with Turkish officials. (Ayhan Avci/Cihan News Agency via AP)

At least 35 migrants die as boats capsize off Turkey

At least 35 migrants were killed Monday after two boats capsized off the coast of western Turkey, just as German Chancellor Angela Merkel was visiting the nation to strategize with Turkish authorities on how to stem the flow of refugees to Europe from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

February 8, 2016
South Korean army soldiers watch a news program about North Korea's rocket launch Sunday at Seoul Railway Station. (Associated Press)

North Korea launches rocket; U.S. and South Korea formalize missile shield talks

North Korea defied international warnings Sunday by launching a new long-range rocket -- prompting swift condemnation from the United Nations and frustration in Washington and Seoul, which will now formalize long-anticipated talks toward deploying an advanced U.S. missile shield in South Korea despite opposition from China.

February 7, 2016
State Department spokesman John Kirby. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama administration pressures Russia to stop Syria bombing campaign

The Obama administration escalated its demand that Russia halt its bombing campaign in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday, a day after a major multinational push to hold peace talks aimed at ending Syria's 5-year-old civil war struggled to get off the ground.

February 4, 2016
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos answers a question during an interview at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

U.S. ready to boost Colombian aid in hopes of FARC peace deal

The White House threw its weight behind Colombia's push for a major peace accord with leftist FARC rebels Tuesday, announcing that President Obama will ask Congress to ramp up security-related aid to the South American nation if a final deal gets signed in the months ahead.

February 2, 2016
In this Jan. 3, 2016 photo, with the aid of head lamps, rebel fighters for the 36th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC, prepare a breakfast of rice, beans, sausages and coffee, in their hidden camp in Antioquia state, in the northwest Andes of Colombia. The day begins around 4:30 a.m. inside the temporary camp, home to 22 rank and file fighters, 4 commanders and 2 dogs. All rank and file are expected to share in kitchen patrol. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Obama set to announce new plan to aid Colombia after civil war

The Obama administration is poised to announced a major new aid proposal for Colombia in a bid to back the South American nation's push for a final peace accord with leftist FARC rebels after more than a generation of civil war.

February 2, 2016
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)

North Korea-Iran nuclear ties probably deep: report

The U.S. must do more to track and block companies that could be aiding the collaboration between Iran and North Korea on nuclear and military programs, according to a report published in Washington on Thursday that claims the links between the two isolated nations is deeper than commonly recognized.

January 28, 2016
Secretary of State John Kerry's trip to Beijing this week was preceded by reports that the administration is pushing behind the scenes on China and other North Asian nations to embrace an aggressive sanctions regime that would even ban all oil exports to North Korea. (Associated Press)

U.S. and China divided on North Korea sanctions

Chinese officials say they are willing to back a harshly worded U.N. resolution condemning North Korea's latest nuclear test, but a visit by Secretary of State John F. Kerry to Beijing Wednesday revealed the Obama administration has so far failed to win Beijing's support for ramped-up economic sanctions against Pyongyang.

January 27, 2016
President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Massoud Barzani (Associated Press) **FILE**

Kurdish leader calls for redrawing Mideast borders

The president of Iraqi Kurdistan says the creation of an independent Kurdish state in the Middle East is "now closer than at any other time" and is calling on world leaders to accept that the nearly century-old Sykes-Picot pact that resulted in the Mideast's current borders has failed.

January 22, 2016
Chinese President Xi Jinping is making overtures to Middle Eastern powers regarding expanded trade. (Associated Press)

China moves to supplant U.S. as key foreign power in Middle East

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Saudi Arabia Tuesday for the first stop on a closely watched tour that will include visits to Egypt and Iran, as Beijing pushes to widen its access to Middle East oil and potentially supplant Washington as the most influential foreign power operating in the tumultuous region.

January 19, 2016
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to the press following the COP21 United Nations conference on climate change in Le Bourget, France, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

John Kerry says Iran sanctions relief ‘within coming days’

The Obama administration is likely to begin lifting sanctions on Iran "within the coming days," according to Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who made no mention of Tehran's recent ballistic missile tests or other destabilizing actions during a wide-ranging foreign policy speech Wednesday.

January 13, 2016
Secretary of State John F. Kerry learned of the incident shortly after noon as he and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter were meeting with their Filipino counterparts at the State Department. (Associated Press)

Pentagon: 2 U.S. Navy boats, 10 sailors held by Iran but will be returned

Iran seized control of two small U.S. Navy boats with 10 sailors aboard in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, but U.S. officials said they were assured by Tehran that the sailors and the vessels, one of which was experiencing mechanical problems, would soon be released without harm.

January 12, 2016
Secretary of State John F. Kerry (Associated Press/File)

John Kerry objects to Republican confirmation delays for 17 foreign policy nominees

When President Obama nominated John F. Kerry to be secretary of state, it took less than five weeks for the Democrat-controlled Senate to confirm the choice. These days, however, Republicans run the chamber and are a lot less willing to sign off on any nominees -- let alone for foreign posts with an administration in its final year.

January 11, 2016