ALEPPO, Syria — The demonstrations calling for the departure of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad that have swept across opposition-held cities and towns in parts of northern Syria have managed to deliver an important message to the world: The Syrian revolution is far from over.

The protests were called amid Russian and regime forces mobilizing their forces near Idlib while threatening to invade the city. In condemning these threats, demonstrators in Idlib have taken to the streets every Friday since the beginning of September. In a step that rolled back the clock to the early days of the revolution, demonstrators have shown that the banner of the revolution that began in 2011 is the only banner they will hold. For them, there is no room for the colors of extremist jihad.

Residents in the opposition-held cities and towns of northern Syria in Idlib, the northern and western countryside of Aleppo and the northern countryside of Hama took part in mass demonstrations Sept. 28, reasserting the demands of the revolution and calling for the fate of detainees held by the regime to be made public.

On Sept. 21, some one million protesters had taken to the streets in dozens of Free Syrian Army-controlled cities and towns in Idlib province, the northern and western countryside of Aleppo and the northern countryside of Hama. “No constitution or reconstruction until Bashar has been overthrown,” demonstrators chanted.