Tens of thousands of Syrians took to the streets nationwide on Friday shouting that President Bashar Assad should "leave," Reuters reports.
The wave of protests comes in answer to organizers calls to "light the flame of revolution" earlier in the week despite a military assault on northwestern towns, witnesses and activists say.
Demonstrations ranged from the suburbs of Damascus and Aleppo, to Lebanese border regions and the desert bordering Iraq, where tank assaults on villages near Turkey killed three civilians overnight.
Last nights deaths raised the toll to at least 14 villagers in the last two days, human rights observers say.
"Bashar get out of our lives," read placards carried by thousands of Kurds who marched in the northeastern city of Amouda.
The renewed violence sparked blunt criticism at the United Nations on Thursday where Western ambassadors used a biannual UNSC meeting to renew the mandate of the UN separation force in the Golan Heights to showcase Assad's repressive measures.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Lithuania on Friday said Syria is running out of time to reform and will face more organized resistance if it does not.
Speaking at a press conference with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, Clinton also said she was disheartened by the Syrian government's decision to allow one opposition meeting in Damascus, which she felt was not sufficient.
Asked about the apparent contradiction between permitting the meeting while pursuing a tank offensive in the north, Clinton said: "It doesn't appear that there's a coherent and consistent message coming from Syria.
"They must begin a genuine transition to democracy, Clinton told reporters. "Allowing one meeting of the opposition in Damascus is not sufficient action toward achieving that goal."