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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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An edgy and informative look at the biggest U.S. national security and geopolitical issues making headlines right now. Less about hot takes and more about depth, the Threat Status podcast is helmed by veteran Washington Times journalists Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor and features regular appearances by insiders with expertise on war, politics and global affairs.

Special Report: Vlad's Vengeance

Inside Putin's 'hybrid warfare' on the U.S. Click here to read more.

Articles by Guy Taylor

This still image made from video released by the U.S. Central Command on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, shows a structure in Tall Al Qitar, Syria moments after a U.S. airstrike. In three waves of nighttime attacks launched over four hours early on Tuesday, the U.S. and its Arab partners made more than 200 airstrikes against roughly a dozen militant targets in Syria. (AP Photo/US Central Command)

U.S. has mapped ISIS propaganda centers but won’t launch military strikes

In a secret project tied to the overall U.S. campaign against the Islamic State, intelligence officials have spent months mapping out known physical locations of media safe houses where the extremist group's operatives are compiling, editing and curating raw video and print materials into finished digital propaganda products for dissemination across the Internet.

December 14, 2015
Rep. Edward R. Royce, California Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

Ed Royce: Obama ‘whitewashing’ Iran bomb-making program

The top House Republican on foreign policy says the Obama administration is trying to "whitewash" Iran's history of nuclear bomb research by pressuring the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency to formally end its probe into the "possible military dimensions" of the Islamic Republic's nuclear activities.

December 11, 2015
US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, walks with White House senior advisor Brian Deese, left, and US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, centre, to attend a meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius during the COP 21 United Nations conference on climate change at Le Bourget, on the outskirts of Paris, on Thursday Dec. 10, 2015. (Mandel Ngan Pool via AP)

Kerry praises Syrian opposition gathering but divisions remain

Secretary of State John F. Kerry praised the "positive outcome" of a Syrian opposition conference in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, despite evidence of deep and ongoing divisions among rival rebel factions over the prospect of a future peace negotiation with the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

December 10, 2015
President Barack Obama speaks in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, during an event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the 13th amendment that abolished slavery. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama ignoring Iran’s missile tests, senators claim

Two hawkish Republican senators are pushing the Obama White House to clarify how it intends to respond to two ballistic missile tests carried out by Iran over the past two months -- one of which was declared by the administration to have been a "clear violation" of a United Nations Security Council resolution banning such tests.

December 9, 2015
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius wants clear messages from the West to counter Russian propaganda in the Eastern bloc. (Associated Press)

Linas Linkevicius, Lithuanian Foreign Minister, says Russian propaganda fills void from West

NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW: Lithuania and other Eastern bloc nations are craving a clear and decisive message of support from the United States, as Russian President Vladimir Putin pushes the limits of NATO's resolve and moves to fill "gaps of influence" created by the West's failure to defend its interests and international law, Lithuania's top diplomat warned Tuesday.

December 8, 2015
FILE - In this file photo released on Sunday, June 28, 2015, by a website of Islamic State militants, an Islamic State militant waves his group's flag as he and another celebrate in Fallujah, Iraq, west of Baghdad.The Islamic State’s gruesome rampage across the Middle East has united the world in horror but left it divided over how to refer to the group, with observers adopting different acronyms based on their translation of an archaic geographical term and the extent to which they want to needle the group. (Militant website via AP, File)

ISIS, al Qaeda are ‘winning’: Study

The U.S. should engage in a dramatic revamping of the post-9/11 global war on terror, according to a new study published Monday in Washington that says major gains during recent years by both al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and South Asia indicate the "extremists are no longer on the run and arguably are winning."

December 7, 2015
San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan, left, introduces David Bowditch, assistant director in charge of the FBI LA Field Office, at a press conference near the site of yesterday's mass shooting on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 in San Bernardino, Calif. A heavily armed man and woman dressed for battle opened fire on a holiday banquet for his co-workers Wednesday, killing multiple people and seriously wounding others in a precision assault, authorities said. Hours later, they died in a shootout with police. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Authorities move toward terrorism as motive in San Bernardino rampage

Law enforcement authorities edged closer Thursday to the conclusion that the Muslim husband and wife team that carried out the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, may have been radicalized by Islamic extremists either in the U.S. or during trips the couple made to the Middle East, including to Saudi Arabia.

December 3, 2015
Former Sens. Jon Kyl (left) and Joe Lieberman are releasing a report, "Why American Leadership Still Matters," through the American Enterprise Institute. They point to developments around the world over the past two years to show "just how much is at stake when America pulls back." (Associated Press)

Jon Kyl, Joe Lieberman report: ‘Why American Leadership Still Matters’ around world

The world needs the U.S. to lead -- and not just from behind -- according to a report by two influential former senators, who argue that political pressure on the Obama administration from the far left and far right for America to disengage from the world has created a power vacuum that unpredictable and unsavory actors are all too eager to fill.

December 2, 2015
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr nuclear power plant. (Associated Press/File)

Iran violates nuclear deal with lies to U.N. inspectors, report claims

Iran is deliberately trying to deceive U.N. inspectors in charge of implementing last summer's nuclear deal, according to a prominent Iranian dissident group, which claims that Tehran has created a "top-secret committee" to provide false information to the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency.

December 2, 2015
Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at United Nations headquarters on Sept. 26, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Dissidents claim Iran has ‘secret committee’ to deceive nuke inspectors

Iran is deliberately trying to deceive U.N. inspectors in charge of implementing last summer's nuclear deal, according to a prominent Iranian dissident group, which claims that Tehran has created a "top secret committee" to provide false information to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

December 2, 2015
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, listens to his Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif prior to their meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Ed Royce claims Iran to hit ‘jackpot’ with sanctions relief

While a key Republican on foreign policy says Iran about to hit the "jackpot" of sanctions relief, a former top Obama administration counterterrorism official argues that Iran can be trusted to not use money for expanding its military proxy and terrorist-support operations in the Middle East, asserting that Tehran makes "rational calculations about advancing its interests."

December 2, 2015
NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Philip Breedlove (center) speaks with Czech Army General Petr Pavel (left) and French Air Force General Denis Mercier as the mutual-defense organization considers admitting Montenegro, a move Moscow says reverts to a Cold War policy of "containing" Russia. (Associated Press)

Montenegro invited to join NATO, a move sure to anger Russia, strain alliance’s standards

NATO formally invited Montenegro into the alliance on Wednesday in a move likely to further roil relations between Russia and the West -- even as some critics on both sides of the Atlantic assert the tiny Balkan nation has failed to meet political and rule of law standards that were once mandatory for membership in the world's most powerful military club.

December 1, 2015
Saudi pilots involved in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Islamic State targets sit in the cockpit of a fighter jet in Saudi Arabia on Sept. 24. (Associated Press)

Obama anti-ISIS coalition crumbles as Arab allies focus elsewhere

The major Arab powers once deemed essential to the fight against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq have largely pulled back from the U.S.-led military campaign, undercutting the Obama administration's claims about the depth and reach of the coalition it has built with allies in the region.

November 30, 2015
Former Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi hopes for tribal harmony. (Associated Press)

Iraq Shiite government reigns at other tribes’ peril

Despite the installation of a new U.S.-backed Shiite prime minister in Baghdad more than a year ago, the Iraqi central government's treatment of the nation's Sunni majority still has not improved.

November 26, 2015