Offices of the ruling Baath party were burned down in the southern town of Tafas and coastal town of Latakia, witnesses said, while hundreds renewed demonstrations in Deraa.
The authorities earlier released more than 200 political prisoners in Damascus, a UK-based rights group said.
The protests are a serious challenge to President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The US and the UN had condemned the Syrian government following reports that troops fired on peaceful protesters on Friday.
However, the political and information adviser to President Bashar al-Assad, Bouthaina Shaaban, has told the BBC it was not security forces that had shot protesters but "armed groups" firing on civilians indiscriminately.
The biggest protests on Saturday were in Tafas, 18km (11 miles) north of the city of Deraa, which is close to the Jordan border and which has become the centre of the challenge to the 11-year rule of President Assad.
Thousands took to the streets in Tafas to bury three protesters who witnesses said had been killed by security forces on Friday.
Reports of the deaths of protesters in Syria cannot be independently confirmed.
Meanwhile, Ms Shaaban told BBC Arabic there were "foreign schemes" aimed at destabilising Syria and that a number of foreign nationals had been detained.
[That cunt Butheina (and I don't use that word often or lightly) will do down as the most pathetic propagandist in the Arab revolution era , today she expressed "shock" when Syria released 260 political prisoners saying "I am surprised the number is this high, I don't think we have this many political prisoners !!" ]
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