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Bombings Targeting Syrian Government Checkpoints Kill 40
(Washington Post) Liz Sly and Zakaria Zakaria - A car bomb exploded on a bridge in the Alawite stronghold of Tartus on Monday, and then a suicide bomber struck when people gathered to take the wounded to a hospital, the official Syrian Arab News Agency SANA reported. At least 30 people were killed. Elsewhere, four people died in an explosion at a checkpoint in Homs, one person died in a bombing outside Damascus, and five people died in a motorcycle bombing in Hasakah. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blasts.