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Fourth, a question that has haunted chancelleries for several months: Is the new master of Damascus, Ahmed al-Sharaa, truly a repentant former member of al Qaeda?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

World chancelleries took note, awaited word of the Moscow agenda.

From Time Magazine Archive

Accordingly, when Shepilov, now Soviet Foreign Minister, set out three weeks ago to revisit the scene of his original triumph, European chancelleries nervously braced themselves for further Soviet coups.

From Time Magazine Archive

For almost 40 years, this wise economist has been summoned by leaders of the chancelleries and the countinghouses for advice on money policies.

From Time Magazine Archive

And Europe’s chancelleries for the next century played a chess game of naked exploitation and power from Cape Horn to Cairo.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey