Tara Fares


Tara Fares was an Iraqi model and beauty blogger.
Fares was forced to get married at the age of 16. She later said that her husband had been abusive.
In 2013, Fares was voted beauty queen of Baghdad and went on to compete in the Miss Iraq competition, where she was a runner-up. Fares was born in Baghdad, and her father is an Iraqi Christian, and her mother a Lebanese Shiite.
Fares had a large following on social media site Instagram, with 2.8 million followers at the time of her death.
In July 2018, Fares said in a post on Instagram, “It does not frighten me that there are those who reject the existence of God. What really frightens me is there are those who kill and slaughter to prove the existence of God.”
On 27 September 2018, she was shot three times by an unknown gunman in Baghdad while driving her Porsche Boxster convertible. Iraq's Interior Minister Qasim al-Araji stated that the responsible for her murder was 'an extremist Shiite group' whose members had received dishonorable discharges from different armed factions. However, the names of any suspects have still not been released as of March 2019.