THIS is the Syrian President’s first female martyr.

Lieutenant Mervet Sa’eed, age unknown, is from the Syrian Republican Guards. Blogs and social media claim she sacrificed her soul for Bashar al-Assad when she was killed near Damascus.

Last week, a gun fight erupted on a border checkpoint where an elite arm of the Syrian army were carrying out a terrorist elimination operation, Vocativ reported.

Sa’eed was killed along with others in the attack and for this became a pro-regime hero.

The news of her death flooded pro-Assad blogs and quickly became a piece of propaganda on Facebook for the civil war which began in 2011. It is an ongoing conflict between forces loyal to the government and pro-democratic protesters who seek to oust it. More than 140,000 people have died.

Although women fight on both sides, it is rare for a female to die in combat.

According to reports, Sa’eed and her sister enlisted to defend the regime in battle due to their patriotism for Assad. They began working desks jobs but pushed to be sent to the field. They were eventually posted to a checkpoint in Daria, north of Damascus.

A Facebook post stated Sa’eed’s father had originally been against his daughter’s fighting on the front line but the girls claimed “we are the sisters of men, and because God did not provide you with sons, we will be the men and you will be proud of us, father.”

He now says he would sacrifice his other five daughters and his wife for his country’s cause.

The opposition didn’t let Sa’eed’s death go unnoticed either.

“We stepped on the dead … Mirfat Mohamad Sa’eed, which was one of Assad’s Shabiha in the presidential guard. … May she go to hell and good riddance,” a post on the Free Syrian Army website read.