Women and children were among the victims of the two attacks in the south of the city, state TV reported. 

 

Earlier, activists² said government jets had bombed the city's Harasta district.

 

UN envoy³ Lakhdar Brahimi, who brokered⁴ the truce⁵ over the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, said he regretted that both sides were not complying with it.

 

"The situation is bad and getting worse," he told reporters in Moscow after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

 

But Mr Brahimi nevertheless insisted that he would not be discouraged by the apparent failure of his initiative, which he had hoped would allow a political process to develop and lead to a permanent end to hostilities⁶.

 

"It will not discourage us because Syria is very important and the people of Syria deserve our support and interest," he added. "We think this civil war must end... and the new Syria has to be built by all its sons."

 

Mr Lavrov said that the opposition⁷'s allies in the West and in the Middle East should realise that without dialogue with the Syrian government no solution would be found. 

 

At least 110 people - including 39 civilians⁸, 34 rebel fighters and 35 security forces personnel - were killed on Sunday, according to Syrian Observatory⁹ for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based activist¹ group.

 

 

State media said a "terrorist group" had detonated a car bomb outside a bakery in Jaramana, a predominantly Christian¹⁰ and Druze area of the capital.

 

A government official told the Associated Press that the explosion had also wounded 41 people and caused heavy damage.

 

The Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), an opposition activist network, said the car bomb appeared to have targeted a police station. The area was quickly cordoned¹¹ off by security forces as ambulances ferried casualties to hospital, it added.

 

A second car bomb hit the southern district of al-Hajar al-Aswad, causing an unknown number of casualties, state TV reported later on Monday. 

 

An earlier car bomb in Damascus during the holiday period was blamed by the authorities on Islamist militants¹² in the rebel movement, but the opposition held the government itself responsible for the attack.

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