Tara Fares (Arabic: تارة فارس; 10 January 1996 – 27 September 2018) was an Iraqi model, beauty blogger and Instagram star.
[1] In 2013, Fares was voted beauty queen of Baghdad[2] and went on to compete in the Miss Iraq competition, where she was a runner-up.
[6] On 27 September 2018, she was shot three times by an unknown gunman in Baghdad while driving her Porsche Boxster convertible.
[6] Iraq's Interior Minister Qasim al-Araji stated that those responsible for her murder were members of "an extremist Shiite group" who had received dishonourable discharges from different armed factions.
[6] Many people reject the government’s reason and blame the murder on the young woman's freedom, which bothered many extremist militias.