The attacks took place between 08:00 and 09:00 (05:00-06:00 GMT) on Monday.<\/p>\n
Syria’s official Sana news agency reported that 30 civilians had been killed and 45 others injured in the Tartous countryside.
\nFirst, a car bomb was detonated on the Arzoneh motorway bridge, a local police source told Sana.<\/p>\n
Then, as a crowd gathered at the scene to help the wounded, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt, the source added.<\/p>\n
Tartous had been relatively unscathed by Syria’s five-year civil war until May, when a suicide bomb attack on a bus station by IS militants left dozens dead.<\/p>\n
In the central city of Homs, four people were killed and 10 injured when a car bomb exploded at the entrance to the Bab Tadmour district, Sana reported.<\/p>\n
The governor of Homs province said the car bomb targeted a military checkpoint and that the casualties were soldiers.<\/p>\n
One person was killed in a bombing on a road in Saboura, a heavily-guarded western suburb of Damascus, a police source told Sana.<\/p>\n
Opposition activist Yousef al-Boustani said the area was home to security officers and their families and that the attack represented a major security breach.<\/p>\n
In Hassakeh, an explosives-packed motorcycle was blown up at the Marsho roundabout, killing five civilians and injuring two others, Sana said.<\/p>\n
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that monitors the conflict in Syria through a network of sources, said three of the dead were Kurdish security personnel, known as the Asayish.<\/p>\n
The Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) militia took near complete control of the north-eastern city last month after a week of clashes with government troops.<\/p>\n
The Syrian Observatory put the total death toll for Monday’s attacks at 47.<\/p>\n
The attacks came as US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed a ceasefire deal for Syria on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China.<\/p>\n Mr Obama said he and Mr Putin had had “productive” discussions and had agreed to continue the search for a comprehensive truce. “But my instructions to Secretary [of State John] Kerry and Mr Putin’s instructions to [Foreign Minister Sergei] Lavrov were to keep working at it over the next several days.”<\/p>\n Mr Putin said the talks were “on the right track” and that there was “some alignment” with the US.<\/p>\n It had been hoped a deal on a ceasefire and humanitarian deliveries would be announced jointly by Mr Kerry and Mr Lavrov on Monday, but it was not forthcoming.<\/p>\n The US is particularly concerned by the deteriorating conditions in and around Syria’s second city, Aleppo, where rebel-held districts are once again under siege after government forces advanced on Sunday.<\/p>\n Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also at the G20, said he had urged world powers to create a “safe zone” in Syria, with a “no-fly” element, that would help control the flow of migrants.<\/p>\n Mr Obama said he and Mr Putin had had “productive” discussions and had agreed to continue the search for a comprehensive truce.<\/p>\n The US president said: “Given the gaps of trust that exist, that’s a tough negotiation and we haven’t yet closed the gaps in a way where we think it would actually work.<\/p>\n “But my instructions to Secretary [of State John] Kerry and Mr Putin’s instructions to [Foreign Minister Sergei] Lavrov were to keep working at it over the next several days.”<\/p>\n Mr Putin said the talks were “on the right track” and that there was “some alignment” with the US.<\/p>\n It had been hoped a deal on a ceasefire and humanitarian deliveries would be announced jointly by Mr Kerry and Mr Lavrov on Monday, but it was not forthcoming.<\/p>\n The US is particularly concerned by the deteriorating conditions in and around Syria’s second city, Aleppo, where rebel-held districts are once again under siege after government forces advanced on Sunday.<\/p>\n Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, also at the G20, said he had urged world powers to create a “safe zone” in Syria, with a “no-fly” element, that would help control the flow of migrants. At least 40 people have been killed in bombings in mainly government-held areas of Syria, state media report. Four attacks took place within an hour in Tartous, Homs and in a suburb of Damascus, with one in Hassakeh, which is dominated by Kurdish forces. The deadliest incident was outside Tartous, home to a Russian naval […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":245958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/245958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Vladimir](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Putin-Obama.jpg\")
\nThe US president said: “Given the gaps of trust that exist, that’s a tough negotiation and we haven’t yet closed the gaps in a way where we think it would actually work.<\/p>\n
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