Most of the brigade is made up of Shiites from Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria.
They have come to protect the shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, in Damascus, which has found itself on the front line of the Syrian civil war.
The brigade was formed after an online video showed Sunnis desecrating and burning another Shiite holy site.
Existence of such a brigade shows how the Syrian civil war is much more than one nation fighting itself, but is a growing conflict between the two main branches of Islam.
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