Nationalism Guards, new militia joins Syrian war, mostly Egyptians

Militants of so-called Nationalism Guards have joined the Syrian conflict according to pro-Assad's social media pages.

‘Nasser News’ facebook page with more than 136 thousand subscribers revealed about "the first Egyptian martyr who passed away in the defence battle for Syrian's Arabism."

Abu Bakr al-Masri has been killed in Qalamoun province, the page said

Zaman Alwasl was published before news of killing two Egyptians in Damascus suburbs, one of them Amer Eid Abdullah (Pictured).

The 'Nationalism Guards' or 'pan-Arabism guards' is a very ideological movement takes form the late Egyptian president, Jamal Abdul Nasser, an Icon and a spiritual leader.

Assad's military resurgence this year has relied to a great extent on support from Shi'ite Iranand fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iraqi militias, some of them based around a Shi'ite shrine southeast of Damascus.

They have helped turn the tide against the Sunni Muslim rebels, whose ranks are increasingly dominated by Islamist fighters and al Qaeda-linked foreign jihadists.

"In the last few months Assad has been increasingly leaving the fighting in the urban areas, especially Damascus and its environs, to his Shi'ite allies," a Middle East security official said to Reuters.

An estimated 120,000 people have been killed and millions displaced by Syria's civil war, which erupted after a fierce government crackdown on pro-democracy protests first held in March 2011.