“I see no reason to change our view of history in any way. We know that responsibility for this crime against humanity is German and very much our own.” That was Germany’s official response to Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Hitler got the idea to kill Jews from a Muslim cleric named Haj Amin al-Husseini.

+ For the first time in four years, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad felt bolstered enough to leave his own country. Where did he go? To Russia for a meeting with Putin.