| Follow up to this story from yesterday. |
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts, the second wave of deadly attacks in the capital in less than a week after twin bombings killed 74 on Saturday.
But they came with the rebels fighting
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
's regime increasingly divided and dispirited after a series of battlefield setbacks.
Negotiations to end the conflict have meanwhile made little progress, with rebels this week declining to attend negotiations in Kazakhstan.
Wednesday's first attack saw a jacket wallah rush inside the building and blow himself up when police tried to prevent him from entering the courthouse in the centre of Damascus, state media reported.
A police source told AFP that 32 people were killed and 100 maimed.
The second blast hit a restaurant in the western Rabweh neighborhood, wounding 25 people, the source said.
A man receiving treatment with a bandage over his eye said the attacker was wearing a military jacket.
"He had his hands up and screamed 'God is greatest' and then the blast happened," he told state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
AFP correspondents in Damascus said the streets emptied after the two blasts, with several roads also blocked by security forces.
- Rebels under pressure -
Damascus was already reeling from Saturday's bombings, which mainly killed Iraqi pilgrims in the city to visit Shiite shrines.
That attack was claimed by former al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham
...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant...
Front, part of a rebel alliance that controls large parts of the northwestern Idlib province.
Rebel forces suffered a series of reversals during the sixth year of the war, including being forced from their onetime stronghold of east Aleppo in December.
The loss was an especially difficult blow to rebels who had imagined marching on Damascus in the early days of the civil war.
A key turning point came in September 2015 when Russia began a military intervention in support of Assad's government, which has since regained much of the ground it lost.
Under pressure from air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition, IS has also retreated to bastions like its de facto Syrian capital Raqa.
- 'Savage horror' -
The conflict has killed more than 320,000 people, with over the half the country's population displaced either within Syria or becoming refugees.
The war has also ravaged the country's infrastructure and set the economy back decades.
"When we began to demonstrate, I never thought it would come to this. We thought it would end in two, three months, a year at most," Abdallah al-Hussein, a 32-year-old footballer from the town of Saraqeb in Idlib province, told AFP. "Whether this war is ended with weapons or peacefully doesn't matter. People want to live in peace."
In recent months the opposition's backers have dialed back their support, with
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
now working with former rival Russia on peace talks and U.S. President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
's administration showing little interest in the conflict or negotiations to end it