DAMASCUS (AA) - September 19, 2012 - A group of Christian youngsters are coming together to join in dissidents to fight against forces of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.
The group from capital Damascus' Bab Tuma, Kassaa and Gassani neighborhoods are joining in what they named Ansarullah Battalion to fight under the Free Syrian Army against government forces in the prolonged civil war that killed more than 20,000 people in the past 18 months.
Syria's nearly two million Christians constitute 8 percent of the country's population.
