At least 43 people were killed and dozens wounded in five explosions across mostly government-controlled areas of Syria, according to state media reports.
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A double bombing hit the Arzuna bridge in the northwestern coastal city of Tartus.
The Observatory said the twin blasts killed 35 people, including an army colonel, and injured dozens more.
A vehicle bomb struck a military checkpoint in the central provincial capital of Homs, killing three soldiers and a civilian, and wounding 10 others, according to the governor of Homs.
The Ministry added that another suicidal terrorist detonated his auto bomb at the entrance of Tadmur door in Homs, killing 4 citizens and wounding 10 others, meanwhile, two terrorists also detonated themselves through two explosive belts in Damascus countryside, killing one citizen and injuring three others.
The Islamic State group said it also detonated an explosive device in Qamishli, another northeastern city, targeting a group of Kurdish fighters.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said that attack targeted a checkpoint and gave a toll of three dead.
IS-run Aamaq news agency said the militant group was behind the “simultaneous” blasts that were timed to coincide with Monday’s morning rush hour. The Observatory said four soldiers were killed.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin and his United States counterpart Barack Obama met on Monday 5 September to discuss the crisis in Syria but were unable to come to any initial agreements.
They came a day after Turkish forces and allied rebels seized the last part of the Turkish-Syrian border under IS control.
An attacker detonated his motorcycle at the Marsho roundabout in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, killing five, SANA said.
The Observatory said a percussion bomb also went off in the province’s city of Qamishli city, but nobody was harmed. The Kremlin’s intervention in Syria in September 2015 has made Russian Federation a primary target for Isis violence, as its backing of the government in Damascus essentially changed the course of the civil war.
In the northeastern Bab Tadmor (Gate of Palmyra) neighborhood of the western city of Homs, located 162 kilometers (101 miles) north of Damascus, a bomb attack killed two civilians and left seven others injured. Government military forces withdrew from the city in August after street battles with the Kurdish autonomous self-defence force for the region, the YPG.
Washington backs the uprising against Assad, but is working with his key ally Moscow on how to stem the bloodshed.
Despite the failure, Obama said yesterday that a meeting with Putin on Syria had included “productive conversations about what a real cessation of hostilities would look like”.
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Hopes had been raised that a deal would be announced over the weekend, but U.S. officials said it floundered after Russian Federation backtracked. The leaders directed Kerry and Lavrov to reach an agreement in the coming days, according to a senior White House official.
