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The self-styled Islamic State claimed the attacks in the town of Sayyidah Zaynab (Damascus) and Homs.

Currently it is estimated that a total of 184 people have died from the attacks. Monday is still recovering bodies of victims among the wreckage.


Car bombings and suicide attacks carried out this weekend, have left at least 184 dead and dozens wounded in Homs and Damascus, according to Syrian media report that collect statements by local officials and Syrian security forces.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in London, at least 83 people were killed and 178 others injured when three terrorists attacked a southern suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
In Homs, they were detonated two car bombs in a neighborhood that supports the regime of Bashar al Assad. According to information from the state news agency SANA, as a result of these two attacks killed at least 39 people.

The total number of victims has risen in the morning of Monday, when still bodies of the victims are rescued from the wreckage.

The Daesh claim responsibility for the attacks

The self-styled Islamic State claimed the attacks in the town of Sayyidah Zaynab (Damascus) and Homs through the messaging application Telegram.

Homs Governor Talal al-Barazi told SANA that two vehicles loaded with "huge amounts of explosives" were detonated near a bus stop in the first attacks on Sunday.

The explosions killed students and government employees on their way to work at the time of the explosions, according to information given by state television Al Ikhbaria.

Images from the explosion showed dozens of vehicles destroyed and serious damage to nearby buildings.

The attacks occurred in the al-Zahraa, controlled by the regime neighborhood in which he lives a large Alawite community to which President Bashar Assad belongs.

The spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry says that Russia is concerned that Turkey's actions in Syria could impede a political resolution of the conflict.

Turkey acknowledges that the strategy of an operation with ground troops in Syria to be discussed within the coalition

On Friday, six members of the Security Council of the UN rejected the Russian proposal to accept the sovereignty of the Syrian regime and to ensure non-interference in the country until there is an application of self-government of Bashar al Assad.

In its draft resolution, Russia sought to demand an end to Turkey's intervention in Syria.

The spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajárova said, the agency RIA Novosti that "the deteriorating situation on the border between Syria and Turkey and Turkey announced plans to introduce its troops into northern Syria do that the overall situation in the region worsens. "

Zajárova said Russia is concerned about the crossing of terrorists into Syria, and Turkey's actions could impede a political resolution of the conflict.

Turkey calls for all countries to join the coalition ground operation

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that the participation of all countries in the international antiterrorist coalition led by the US in the ground operation in Syria is necessary, informs on Monday RIA Novosti agency.

Turkey, however, recognizes that the strategy of an operation with ground troops in Syria to be discussed within the coalition and that some countries are opposed to carrying out the operation.