A vehicle bomb meanwhile struck the city of Homs, around 80 km (50 miles) east of Tartous.
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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.
A handout picture released by Syria’s official SANA news agency shows Syrians and security forces gathering at the site of a blast targeting the Arzuna Bridge outside the Syrian western port city of Tartus, September 5, 2016. SANA said the attack killed one person, while the opposition-run Observatory said three people were killed.
The worst event occurred at a check point at the entrance of Tartus city, where 30 people were killed and nearly 50 were injured, when six armed men from a van attacked and a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt.
One of Monday’s attacks took place in the heavily guarded Damascus suburb of Sabbourah, marking a major security breach.
At least 16 of those killed were troops and pro-government militiamen, the Observatory said.
The state media reported on Monday that Around 38 people lost their lives in a series of Syria bombings in the government held areas of the city.
Syrian state media said the attacker blew himself up on his motorcycle at a traffic circle.
Tartus, much of whose original population belongs to President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite Muslim sect, also hosts large numbers of refugees from elsewhere in Syria.
Back in May, the Islamic State group claimed twin suicide bombings in Tartus and neighboring Jableh that killed over 160 people.
Reports state that the bombings in Syria on Monday came after Turkish forces and Syrian rebels’ advances helped in clearing Isis from the last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border under the control of Islamic State.
There was also an explosion near the town of al-Saboura, along a road which leads onto the Beirut-Damascus highway, according to a police commander quoted on state television.
U.S. President Barack Obama described talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as tough but productive after their meeting at the G20 summit in China. The blasts hit government-held Tartus and Homs, as well as Hasakeh, which is mostly controlled by Kurdish forces but where the regime maintains a presence.
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Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that four officers were killed in Homs where an explosion hit an army checkpoint. The Observatory said the blast killed five Kurdish police, the Asayesh, and three civilians.
