More than five years of civil war have cut Syria into a patchwork of territories held by the government and an often competing array of armed factions, including Kurdish militia fighters, a loose coalition of rebels groups, and Islamic State. The attacks were timed to coincide with the morning rush hour.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said that attack targeted a checkpoint and killed three people.
The YPG already controls swathes of northern Syria where Kurdish groups have established de facto autonomy since the start of the Syrian war in 2011.
Another explosion claimed one life in Sabbourah, a suburb of Damascus, SANA news agency said.
However, None has taken the responsibility for the attacks so far but as the city has been a usual target for the IS Terrorists, It’s been said that the IS terrorists are the mind behind the attacks. IS said a suicide auto bomb targeted a military checkpoint in the area west of Damascus.
“It’s an area that houses officers and their families”.
A vehicle bomb meanwhile struck the city of Homs, around 80 km (50 miles) east of Tartous.
Four people were killed and as many others wounded in the explosion.
At least 35 of those were killed in President Bashar al-Assad’s coastal stronghold of Tartus, state media reported.
Those explosions killed at least 11 people and wounded 45, a source in the Tartous police told SANA.
Elsewhere, four people died in an explosion at a checkpoint in the city of Homs, and one person died in a bombing in the countryside surrounding Damascus. The effort was complicated Sunday by fresh gains by government forces that entirely cut off the rebel-controlled portion of the city, leaving an estimated 300,000 civilians without access to the outside world.
Attackers detonated two bombs along the global coastal highway to the government stronghold of Tartus, SANA said, killing 35.
On Monday, five civilians were killed and 14 others injured when several rockets fired by Jaish al-Fatah militants struck the Salahuddin neighborhood of Aleppo, located 355 kilometers (220 miles) north of the capital, Damascus.
The Syrian TV also showed footage in which the area can be seen after sustaining heavy damage. The IS news agency said the attack targeted a checkpoint manned by Kurdish forces.
Government forces withdrew from Hasakeh in August after street battles with Kurdish forces, which took control of the city, though the state’s police force remained in place.
An Islamic State attacker on a motorcycle blew himself up in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, killing eight, SANA said.
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The casualty figures come from Syrian media, although there is now no official information on the death and injury tolls, or who was responsible for the explosions.
