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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

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is also a member of the Assembly of Experts, arrives to attend a biannual meeting of the assembly in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Iran's most influential clerical body charged with choosing or dismissing the nation's supreme leader has elected a hard-line ayatollah as its new chairman, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. IRNA said Mohammad Yazdi, the deputy chairman of the 86-member Assembly of Experts, got 47 votes in his favor from among 73 clerics who attended the session. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Obama clinging to ‘preposterous argument’ with Iran: Rep. Brad Sherman

Bipartisan resistance to the Obama administration's push for a nuclear deal with Iran surged on Capitol Hill on Thursday, even as details emerged about a potential agreement that would allow Tehran to retain up to 6,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges while getting immediate relief from international economic sanctions.

March 19, 2015
Benjamin Netanyahu's fervent criticism of the Obama administration's pursuit of an Iran nuclear deal is likely to continue to strain Israel's alliance with Washington. (Associated Press)

Benjamin Netanyahu win forces Obama to re-evaluate Middle East peace strategy

Prime Minister's Benjamin Netanyahu's decisive election win triggered a sharp reaction Wednesday from the Obama White House, which skipped the customary congratulations to warn that the Israeli leader's eleventh-hour campaign promise to block the creation of a Palestinian state has forced the administration to re-evaluate its overall strategy toward the Middle East peace process.

March 18, 2015
Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu in trouble in Israel elections as economy trumps Iran

Despite the buzz generated by his Iran speech to Congress last week, polls show Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is increasingly likely to be ousted in elections Tuesday by voters who say he overplayed the threat from the Islamic republic while ignoring economic problems closer to home.

March 11, 2015
Zhang Chunxian, the Communist Party secretary of the Xinjiang province, claimed Tuesday that an unspecified number of Uighurs have "fled overseas and joined the Islamic State." "We have also found that some who fought returned to Xinjiang to participate in terrorist plots," Mr. Zhang said. (Associated Press)

China says Uighurs bring Islamic State terror back from jihad, plot attacks

A key Chinese official claimed Tuesday that ethnic Uighurs who once fought with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq have returned with plots to attack China, an assertion that quickly drew scrutiny in Washington but underscored the increasingly global reach of the extremist outfit that has drawn more foreign fighters than any other jihadi movement in decades.

March 10, 2015
FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2014 file photo, CIA Director John Brennan speaks during a news conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Brennan has ordered a sweeping reorganization of the spy agency, an overhaul designed to make its leaders more accountable, enhance the agency’s cyber capabilities and shore up espionage gaps exacerbated by a decade of focus on counterterrorism. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

CIA creates new office to counter cyber threats

The Central Intelligence Agency is creating a new directorate focused on cyber operations as part of major structural reorganization the agency announced Friday to, in part, "leverage the digital revolution" across U.S. intelligence missions worldwide.

March 6, 2015
North Korean soldiers stand guard at the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two halves of the Korean Peninsula at Panmunjom, North Korea. The building in the background stands in the South. (Associated Press)

U.S. military says tensions are up on DMZ in Koreas

U.S. Army Col. James M. Minnich stood on a wet slab of concrete near a single-story blue U.N. structure in this old village that straddles the official line marking the border of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.

March 3, 2015
South Korean President Park Geun-hye, bottom center, gives three cheers with a national flag during a ceremony to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)

Seoul hopes to build U.N. headquarters, peace park near North Korea’s DMZ

An influential lawmaker here says President Park Geun-Hye's government is putting its weight behind an initiative to bring a new U.N. regional headquarters to South Korea, along with an "international peace park" that could be built on land inside the highly sensitive Demilitarized Zone that has divided the nation from North Korea since 1953.

March 2, 2015
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, before the Senate Armed Services Committee to deliver the annual assessment by intelligence agencies of the top dangers facing the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

James Clapper says political instability, mass killings at highest rate in decades

Breaking sharply with Secretary of State John F. Kerry's far sunnier assessment just a day before, the Obama administration's intelligence czar told Congress on Thursday that political instability and state-sponsored mass killing are at their "highest rate" in decades, and the U.S. still faces ominous challenges from China, Russia, cyberterrorists and the continuing turmoil in the Middle East.

February 26, 2015
Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper (Associated Press)

James Clapper, intel chief: Cyber ranks highest on worldwide threats to U.S.

President Obama's top intelligence official pointed to a range of threats facing America Thursday, from the surge by Sunni Muslim extremist groups in the Middle East, to the pursuit of nuclear weapons by Iran and North Korea, to the push by Russian and Chinese operatives to penetrate Washington's clandestine national security community.

February 26, 2015
Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter IS, retired Gen. John R. Allen prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to examine the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Gen. John Allen, overseer of anti-IS coalition, claims Iraqis winning

President Obama's top adviser overseeing the coalition fighting the Islamic State said Wednesday that "significant gains" have been made against the Islamist group, and claimed that Kurdish Peshmerga as well as Iraqi military forces will be able to defeat the group on the ground despite skepticism in Washington about their readiness.

February 25, 2015
Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Kerry has implored skeptical senators not to criticize nuclear negotiations with Iran before a deal can be crafted, but he's certain to get another round of questions about the sensitive talks from members of the House. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

John Kerry: Cold War ‘simple’ compared to fight with Islamic State

Secretary of State John F. Kerry drew heat from from one Republican lawmaker Wednesday when he said the task of providing American leadership in the world is far more complicated today than it was during the Cold War era — particularly in the face of religious extremism emerging in the post-Arab Spring Middle East.

February 25, 2015
Saying "Iran will not get a nuclear weapon," Secretary of State John F. Kerry defended the Obama administration's negotiations with Iran. He testified that U.S. policy is to prevent such a scenario. (Associated Press)

John Kerry defends Obama Iran nuclear talks, fails to appease bipartisan critics

Secretary of State John F. Kerry defended the Obama administration's pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran in the face of mounting bipartisan scrutiny from lawmakers Tuesday — even as an Iranian dissident group claimed to have fresh proof that Tehran has lied to world powers about its drive to obtain a nuclear weapon.

February 24, 2015