There was no claim of responsibility for the other explosions, which also wounded over 50 people.
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The IS-run Aamaq news agency says the group was behind the “simultaneous” attacks on Monday.
Six explosions that killed dozens of people in Syria on Monday morning have been claimed by Islamic State, state media said.
Two civilians were killed and seven others were injured in a terrorist vehicle bomb explosion hit the entrance of Bab Tadmur neighborhood in Homs City on Monday.
Another bomb attack was also reported on the Al-Sabura road west of the capital Damascus, with state media saying one person had been killed and three injured in that bombing.
The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attacks. On Sunday, Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels pushed the extremist group back from the last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border under its control, closing off a vital link with the outside world.
And state media also reported a auto bomb at the entrance to the Al-Zahra neighbourhood in Homs, which is controlled by the government.
The apparently orchestrated attacks were rare for their scope, shaking the regime-controlled capital Damascus, the western cities Homs and Tartous and a Kurdish area in eastern Hasakah province. The Observatory said the blast killed five Kurdish police, the Asayesh, and three civilians.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which maintains a network of contacts inside the country, put the death toll at 24.
The assailants detonated two bombs at the entrance of the government stronghold of Tartus along the worldwide coastal highway, which killed 30 persons, SANA news agency said.
Turkey began an operation inside Syria on 24 August targetting not only IS but also Syrian Kurdish forces that have been a key USA partner in the fight against the jihadist group in Syria.
Syria has been divided among government forces, rebels and the IS since the civil war began in the country in 2011.
The residents of the al-Zahraa neighbourhood are mostly Alawite, the same sect as al-Assad. Government forces withdrew in August after street battles with Kurdish forces, which took control of the city, though the state’s police force remained in place. The soldier was killed.
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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”. The leaders directed Kerry and Lavrov to reach an agreement in the coming days, according to a senior White House official.
