Reports say blasts also happened in the city of Homs and on a road outside Damascus.
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In the predominantly-Kurdish city of Hasakah, the IS said, a bomber carried out a suicide attack against a checkpoint of Kurdish security forces, known as Assayish.
Adding to the carnage, six blasts on Monday hit west of Damascus and the government-held cities of Homs and Tartous, as well as the Kurdish-controlled northeastern province of Hasaka, state media and a monitoring group said.
In Hangzhou, China, meanwhile, President Barack Obama said the US and Russian Federation have not given up on negotiations to halt the bloodshed in Syria, but acknowledged that “gaps of trust” exist between the rival powers.
More than 290,000 people have been killed in Syria since March 2011, and millions displaced by the fighting.
The United States and Russian Federation have been trying to broker a new truce after a cessation of hostilities agreed in February unravelled within weeks, with Washington accusing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces of violating the pact.
The deadliest blasts hit Tartous, where two explosions hit the Arzouna bridge area at the entrance to the city, killing 35 people. The second took place when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt as people gathered to help the injured from the first incident, a source at Tartous Police Command told the news agency. Conflicting casualty figures are common in the Syria war.
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. The city is mostly controlled by Kurdish forces, though the regime is also present.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Hasakah blast and an additional bombing in the northeastern city of Qamishli that targeted Syrian Kurds and was not reported by the Syrian government.
In May At least 100 were killed and some 200 injured after five explosions rocked Tartus and the coastal city of Jableh some 60 km to the north.
State television broadcast images from the aftermath of the blast in Homs, showing rubble strewn on the streets and smoke rising from the charred remains of vehicles.
The state television, SANA also reported a blast in the Sabbourah suburb of Damascus.
The border town of Jarablus, which Syrian rebels and Turkish forces recently recaptured from the terror group, is a critical location for supplies, money and fighters coming in and out of ISIS-held areas.
Turkey began an operation inside Syria on August 24, targeting both IS and Syrian Kurdish forces that have been a key USA partner in fighting the jihadist group in Syria.The operation has put Washington in an awkward position, with two key allies at times clashing.
Washington backs the uprising against Assad, but is working with his key ally Moscow on how to stem the bloodshed.
Russian Federation says it can not agree to a deal unless opposition fighters, backed by the United States and Middle East allies, are separated from al Qaeda-linked militants they overlap with in some areas.
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”. Putin said the two men had understood each other and an agreement on ways to significantly reduce the violence in Syria could be reached in days.
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“Technical” disagreements remain, a White House official said Monday.
