More than 100 people have been killed in multiple attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group in strongholds of President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, a monitoring group said.
Syrian State TV also reported the attacks, putting the death toll at 65.
Simultaneous car bombs and suicide bombers in bus stations, hospitals and elsewhere in the coastal cities of Tartus and Jableh in Latakia province on Monday appeared to severely breach Assad government defences, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
At least three explosions rocked Tartus, and there were at least four in Jableh, the monitor said.
ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack through one of its media arms, Amaq.
"It is the first time in this war that simultaneous attacks of this scale took place in Latakia," Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker, reporting from Gaziantep in neighbouring Turkey, said.
A Russian naval base is also located in Latakia and Jableh is extremely close to a Russian air base, Dekker said.
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