At least 32 people killed - including army's top spy - after attacks on security offices in third-largest city.
A series of suicide attacks on military installations in Syria's government-held city of Homs are reported to have killed 32 people, including the army's intelligence chief - a close confidant of President Bashar al-Assad.
Syrian state television said the army's intelligence chief General Hassan Daabul died and it paid tribute to the "martyrs" in Saturday's bombings.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said loud explosions and gunfire were heard following the assault in the western Syrian city.
Talal Barzani, the governor of Homs province, said there were three blasts in total killing 32 people and wounding more than 20 others.
The SOHR, which put the Homs toll at 42, said air raids by government forces killed another 13 people across the country, including at least three in al-Waer, a rebel enclave of Homs.
The violence comes as officials from the Assad government and the opposition meet for a fourth round in Switzerland to end Syria's six-year-old civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Kewara's views were echoed by Mutasem Alsyofi of The Day After, a collection of civil society activists, in an interview to Al Jazeera in Geneva.
Saturday's attacks in Homs hit the heavily guarded Ghouta and Mahatta neighbourhoods, prompting security forces to lock down the city centre.
A witness was quoted as saying a suicide bomber actually made it into Daabul's office and detonated his vest.
Brigadier Ibrahim Darwish, head of the State Security Branch, was also critically wounded, state-affiliated al-Ikhbariya TV reported.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons, reporting from Gaziantep on the Turkey-Syria border, said it was unclear how the assailants could have pulled off such an assault.
"Both areas are heavily guarded by the state police and also military so it was a really big and organised twin attack," said Simmons.
Bashar al-Jaafari, who leads the Syrian government delegation to the talks in Geneva, said Saturday's attacks would not go unanswered.
A rebel alliance known as Tahrir al-Sham is believed to have carried out the attack.
Since it was formed, Tahrir al-Sham has fought other rebel groups, including some that fight under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, as well as a faction linked to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, in northwest Syria.
But the city has seen repeated bombings since then. Double bombings killed 64 people early last year.