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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

In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a debate on a vote of confidence for his choice for the new minister of Science, Research and Technology, Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, in an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Iran running clandestine nuclear facility; group says it has proof

Claiming that Iran's government has been lying for years to U.N. nuclear inspectors, a prominent Iranian dissident group on Tuesday asserted that scientists in the Islamic Republic have actually been running a secret uranium enrichment operation at a facility buried deep beneath the ground in the northeast suburbs of Tehran since 2008.

February 24, 2015
US Secretary of State John Kerry, center, arrives at the hotel prior to a bilateral meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for a new round of Nuclear Talks, in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Iran nuclear deal closer with uranium enrichment increase provision

U.S. and Iranian negotiators moved closer Monday to reaching a two-phase nuclear deal that would hinge on a provision allowing Tehran to ramp up its uranium enrichment gradually after a 10-year period of restrictions and inspection from outside powers.

February 23, 2015
FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2014, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem. Is the United States heading for a good or bad nuclear deal with Iran? Good, says Washington. Bad, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His planned March 3 speech to U.S. Congress just a few weeks before the target date for a preliminary agreement gives him a high-profile soapbox for that argument. Israel says any pact that stops short of totally dismembering Iranian programs with weapons-making potential is deeply flawed. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Israeli spy agency broke with Netanyahu on Iran threat — report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2012 warning world that Iran was about a year away from having a nuclear bomb was contradicted just weeks later by a top secret assessment from Israel's own Mossad intelligence agency — which concluded that Tehran was "not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons."

February 23, 2015
White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 20, 2015, as he answered questions about IS. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House: Odds still iffy for nuclear deal with Iran

The Obama administration said Monday that the prospects for a successful nuclear deal with Iran are "fifty-fifty at best," despite reports that U.S. and Iranian negotiators moved closer over the weekend to a two-phase agreement that would allow Tehran to ramp up its nuclear activities over time after an initial clamp-down.

February 23, 2015
An Iranian man holds a portrait of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally commemorating the 36th anniversary of Islamic Revolution under Azadi Tower, Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Iran marked the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution on Wednesday with massive rallies, with many chanting against the U.S. and Israel as the country tries to reach a permanent deal with world powers over its contested nuclear program. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

IAEA: Iran withholding cooperation on nuclear disclosure

In a new assessment that may complicate the ongoing Iran nuclear talks, the United Nation's atomic watchdog agency said Thursday that Iranian authorities still haven't addressed allegations that they carried out explosives tests and other activities that could have been aimed at developing a nuclear bomb.

February 19, 2015
Nigerian presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari from the All Progressives Congress party waves to his supporters in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Two of Nigeria's top diplomats vowed that their nation's postponed elections will occur March 28. (Associated Press)

Nigerian minister rejects U.S. criticism, vows to hold election

Two of Nigeria's top diplomats vowed Wednesday that their nation's postponed elections will occur March 28, and accused the Obama administration of promoting a false narrative that President Goodluck Jonathan is bent on using the security crisis around the terrorist group Boko Haram as a ruse to stay in power.

February 18, 2015
Ukrainian government soldiers sat on their armored vehicle driving on a road away from the town of Artemivsk as separatists pushed deeper into Debaltseve.

Pro-Russia separatists ignore Ukraine cease-fire deadline, push deeper into Debaltseve

Russian-backed separatists kept up a barrage of shelling and made strategic territorial gains in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday as a key cease-fire deadline came and went, triggering fresh speculation that Moscow hopes to carve out a land bridge to the Crimean Peninsula before Western powers take a military stand in the nation.

February 17, 2015
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany on Thursday emerged from marathon 16-hour talks to announce a comprehensive peace deal for eastern Ukraine. (Associated Press)

Ukraine peace deal brokered by European leaders

The Obama administration on Thursday cautiously embraced the peace deal brokered by Germany and France to end Ukraine's civil war, despite critics who say Russia and the Ukrainian separatists it is backing got the better of the deal, solidifying their hold on disputed territory while delaying any expanded Western military role in the conflict.

February 12, 2015
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2014 file photo, fighters from the Free Syrian Army, left, and the Kurdish People's Protection Units, center, join forces to fight Islamic State group militants in Kobani, Syria. Kurdish fighters in Syria have ambitions to become the chief force fighting Islamic State group extremists in the country - building on their victory in Kobani to ally with moderate rebels and push the jihadis ever further. They tout the alliance as a gamechanger in the Syria war as well: the emergence of the effective moderate rebel force that the West has been looking to ally with all along. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin, File)

Islamic State territory now ‘the size of Belgium’: lawmaker

The Obama administration's top counterterrorism official said Wednesday that the number of foreign fighters traveling from the U.S. and other nations to join the Islamic State extremist movement in Syria and Iraq continues to grow — with some 20,000 fighters having flooded in from more than 90 countries in recent years.

February 11, 2015
Lilian Tintori said her husband, opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, has become the symbolic face of dozens of jailed opposition activists in Venezuela, and of a movement that won't die until there is "clear justice, a clear rule of law and human rights for all people" in the nation. (Associated Press)

Joe Biden, amid coup charges, meets Venezuelan opposition figures

Vice President Joseph R. Biden met Wednesday at the White House with the spouse of a jailed Venezuelan opposition leader just a week after the South American nation's president accused Mr. Biden of actively helping to plot a coup against him.

February 11, 2015
Lilian Tintori, wife of imprisoned opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, shows a tattoo of the word "Venezuela" on her wrist. Her incarcerated husband, seen by many as a political prisoner wrongfully jailed, has a matching one on his ankle. (associated press)

Leopoldo Lopez’s wife entreats Obama to help with his captivity

The wife of Venezuela's highest-profile political prisoner pressed the Obama administration to do more to address the human rights crisis in her country, saying the opposition movement won't stop until there is "clear justice, a clear rule of law and human rights for all people."

February 10, 2015