Tara Fares was a model and a social media star whose carefully crafted lifestyle and fashion photos drew in more than 2. On Thursday, she was shot dead at 22 in broad daylight in Baghdad, the latest woman killed in a series of attacks that government officials are investigating as possibly linked.
Some say the recent deaths in Iraq of at least four prominent young women, including Ms. Fares — all of whom were seen as being outspoken or bucking the norms of a conservative society — is a worrying signal of a possibly coordinated campaign to silence them. Others believe the killing of Ms. Fares and the others may just have been random acts of violence in a country where safety is scarce after years of war.
He also said in a statement that officials would explore possible links between Ms. Maamouri said. Maamouri said she believed Ms. Fares traveled in the same social circles as both women. Mohammad Nasir al-Karbouli, a member of Parliament, said attacks like the one on Ms.
Fares were intended to send a message. Karbouli said. Fares, who was originally from Baghdad, left the city three years ago to live in Erbil, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, because she felt it was safer, friends said. Recently, she had begun to spend more time in Baghdad again.
In photos on her Instagram account , she pouts and poses for the camera, decked out in wigs, elaborate makeup and close-fitting dresses, her arms covered with a smattering of tattoos.
