No groups have yet claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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The terror group has reportedly lost control of the last strip of its territory along the Syrian-Turkish border, according to sources and the Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu.
A double bombing hit the Arzuna bridge in the northwestern coastal city of Tartus.
The Observatory and a city hospital put the death toll at 35, including members of the Syrian military, and said the number was likely to rise. Conflicting casualty figures are common in the 5-year-old Syria civil war.
“Four attacks took place within an hour”.
Syria’s conflict, which began in 2011 with peaceful protests, has evolved into a sectarian civil war that has killed over 280,000 people, displaced millions and drawn in regional and worldwide powers.
“The driver was killed and the two others got out of the vehicle and detonated their suicide belts, killing one person”, he said.
The projectiles also caused substantial damage to public properties and several houses in the targeted area.
The scene from a similar auto bombing in Tartous, in May 2016.
ISIS claimed responsibility for three terror attacks on the city in December that killed more than a dozen people. The report said the Tartus-Homs highway was closed briefly.
Bombings targeted the government stronghold of Tartus, home to a Russian naval base, as well as a heavily guarded Damascus suburb and a military post in the central city of Homs.
Syria has called on the United Nations Security Council to adopt punitive measures against countries that support terrorism, in the wake of a string of bomb explosions that killed over four dozen civilians in the Arab country.
Islamic State – which is fighting both the government and the US-backed YPG militants – confirmed that one Hasaka blast took place but did not say whether its fighters were involved.
The extent of any casualties was not initially clear, but there were reports that two officers were killed at an army checkpoint in Homs, where a auto bomb exploded. Three of the cities are held by the Syrian government and the fourth is held by the Kurds, Syrian media reported. The bomb exploded in the government-held Bab Tadmor district.
At least 16 of those killed were troops and pro-government militiamen, the Observatory said.
The reports indicated that the attackers were killed and nearly simultaneously another explosion occurred when several people tried to help the wounded in the shooting.
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Islamic State fighters carried the out suicide attacks, its Amaq news agency said on Monday.
