Almost 300 civilians, who were originally from the town of Daraya for refuge, were evacuated from Muadamiyeh to government-controlled shelters in southern Damascus.
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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.
Sana news agency reported that some 30 people have been killed in the blasts and some 45 injured. The Observatory confirmed an explosive device went off but had no casualty figures.
The Homs blast also left property damage in an area nearly deserted form civilians in that part of the city.
The Kurdish YPG militia, a critical part of the US -backed campaign against Daesh, took near complete control of Hasaka city in late August after a week of fighting with the government.
Syrian state TV said 48 people were killed in blasts around the coastal city of Tartus in the west, the central city of Homs, the suburbs of the capital, Damascus, and the northeastern city of Hasakeh.
IS and the Observatory said the target was a checkpoint at Tartus’ southern entrance.
Two of the explosions on Monday hit the Arzouna bridge area at the entrance to the Mediterranean city of Tartous, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and state news agency SANA said. The militant group said it sent three suicide bombers to the area, the first of them in a vehicle.
State TV showed massive damage at the Arzoneh bridge just outside Tartus along the worldwide coastal highway.
At least 35 people died in a double bombing on a bridge leading to this coastal city, a stronghold of President Bashar al Assad and home to a Russian naval base.
IS had earlier claimed another attack targeting Kurdish forces in the northeastern city of Hasakeh, and said another bombing targeted Kurdish forces in the nearby city of Qamishli.
“Those terrorist bloody explosions come as a continuation of the systemized terrorism perpetrated by terrorist organizations, like Fatah al-Sham, previously Jabhat al-Nusra, Jaish al-Fatah, Ahrar al-Sham and many others, these organizations which some members states name as -moderate armed groups-away from the spirit of the United Nations charter and rules”, the Ministry added.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.
Except for the Hasakeh attack, there has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts.
It urged the UN Security Council to undertake “deterrent” measures against the countries that support the terrorist groups, naming Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and France as patrons of the terror groups.
The world leaders had a longer-than-expected 90-minute discussion about whether, and how, they could agree on a ceasefire deal in the war-torn country.
The meeting between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China, failed to resolve differences and left the Syrian question unanswered, the official said.
Putin meanwhile said he felt there was “some alignment of positions and an understanding of what we could do to de-escalate the situation in Syria”.
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Observers here believe that a robust agreement between both powers could be conducive in bring the violence in Syria to a pause, and hopefully to a long-run pacification.
