More than 140 people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts in government-held areas of Homs and near the Syrian capital Damascus. At least 83 people were killed and more than 180 wounded in several blasts in Sayeda Zeinab, a largely Shi'ite southern suburb of Damascus, according to state news agency SANA. .
A series of blasts have hit near a Shia shrine in Syria's capital Damascus, according to state TV, just hours after a twin bombing in the central city of Homs killed dozens of people.Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from southern Turkey
