Fallujah city council’s chairman, a critic of al-Qaida who took the job after his three predecessors were assassinated, was killed in the latest blow in Iraq’s violent internal Sunni struggle for control of a militant stronghold west of Baghdad.

The Fallujah city council chairman, a critic of al-Qaida who took the job after his three predecessors were assassinated, was killed today – the latest blow in a violent internal Sunni struggle for control of an insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad.