The Cabinet, also, condemned the terrorist attacks, with mortar shells, against some areas in Aleppo, Nubbul, al-Zahraa and Daraa, holding the terrorist organizations’ backers and financers responsible for the attacks and blasts.
Explosions hit the cities of Tartous and Jableh. Several of the blasts were suicide bombings, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
State media said packed bus stations and a hospital were among the targets.
Attacks of this scale are rare in these areas. A news agency linked to so-called Islamic State (IS) says the jihadist group was behind the attacks.
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Scores dead in multiple IS group bombings in coastal regime strongholds in Syria ...
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The TV report Monday said at least one suicide bomber on foot followed by a car bomber attacked a packed bus station in Tartus. An interior ministry official says more than 20 were killed and many injured.
FRANCE 24’s expert in militant Islamist groups Wassim Nasr confirmed that the Islamic State (IS) group has taken responsibility for the attacks.
A witness at the scene who spoke to FRANCE 24 estimated that at least 40 people were killed in Tartus and 20 in Jableh. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that more than 100 people died in the attacks.
Separately, Syria news agency SANA said three rockets were launched into Jableh, which lies 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of Latakia city, landing in a bus station, near the town’s entrance.
The rare attacks occurred in the normally quiet pro-government coastal areas where Russia keeps a naval base in Tartus and an air base in Latakia province. Insurgents maintain a presence in rural Latakia.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)