Suicide bombing in Iraq kills as many as 32 people.

Outside of Baghdad yesterday, a suicide bomber disrupted a reconciliation gathering, killing as many as 32 people and wounding dozens more. Capt. Muthanna Ahmed, a spokesman for the provincial police, told the Washington Post that the “gathering was convened to foster reconciliation between Sunni and Shiite tribes in a region once so violent that residents had nicknamed it the Triangle of Death.” The attack was the worst Iraq has seen “since a suicide bomber killed 57 people at a Dec. 11 meeting of Arab and Kurdish leaders who had gathered to discuss ways to reduce tensions in the contested northern city of Kirkuk.”