Five explosions hit government-controlled areas and a city held by a Kurdish militia in Syria on Monday morning, killing several people, state media and a monitor said.
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The ISIL-run Aamaq news agency said the group was behind the “simultaneous” attacks on Monday, which included six suicide bombings and a remotely detonated bomb.
“A suicidal terrorist exploded his vehicle bomb at Arzounah bridge at the entrance of Tartous city, then another terrorist detonated his explosive belt amid the citizens who have rushed to help the authorities rescue the wounded, claiming the lives of 30 citizens and injuring 43 others”, The Foreign Ministry said in two letters sent to the UN Secretary General and President of Security council.
The first was a auto bomb and the second was reportedly carried out by suicide bomber who detonated an explosive belt when people gathered to help the wounded.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bomb blast that killed at least five people in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh.
An additional attack hit the Al-Sabura road west of the capital Damascus, with state media saying one person had been killed and three wounded.
The ministry says it “counts on the United States” to do its best to ensure the groups don’t target the convoys so that aid to Aleppo can go uninterrupted.
The attacks took place in Tartus, home to a Russian naval base; Homs, a central Syrian city with a large military presence; and in a western suburb of Damascus.
US officials had hoped to reach a deal in time for President Obama’s meeting on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in China. The Observatory said the Homs explosion hit an army checkpoint and two officers were killed.
Sana news agency reported that some 30 people have been killed in the blasts and some 45 injured.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the blasts, but the Islamic State group has regularly targeted several of the areas hit on Monday. ISIL said it also carried out an attack in Qamishli, in Hassakeh province. The Observatory said four soldiers were killed.
President Barack Obama said his meeting with Vladimir Putin was “constructive but not conclusive”.
“Technical” disagreements remain, a White House official said Monday.
But the two powers failed to produce an expected deal to ease the violence in Syria, where more than 290,000 people have been killed and more than half the population displaced since March 2011.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov have been trying to reach a deal for weeks that would curb the violence between the Russian-backed Assad’s government forces and moderate rebels backed by the US.
