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Tens of thousands take to the streets in fresh Syria protests – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.

Protesters chant ‘Basharm get out of our lives’; at least 14 civilians killed in last two days by President Assad’s forces as U.S. warns time running out for reforms.

By Reuters

Tens of thousands of Syrians took to the streets nationwide on Friday shouting that President Bashar Assad should “leave”, extending a protest wave despite a military assault on restive northwestern towns, witnesses and activists said.

Demonstrations ranged from the suburbs of Damascus to the Lebanese border, the desert bordering Iraq and Idlib province, where tank assaults on hill villages near Turkey killed three civilians overnight, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Right. That raised the death toll to at least 14 villagers in the last two days, it said.

	Anti-government protest in the Damascus suburb of Daraya, Syria, earlier this month.
	Photo by: AP

“Bashar get out of our lives,” read placards carried by thousands of Kurds who marched in the northeastern city of Amouda, according to a YouTube video taken by a resident.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday that Syria is running out of time and will face increasingly organized opposition if it does not undertake reform.

Speaking at a news conference, she also said she was disheartened by reports of fresh violence in recent days and that the Syrian government’s decision to allow one opposition meeting in Damascus was not sufficient.

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