Picture shows the aftermath of the blasts that rocked the Syrian capital Damascus on May 10, 2012.
The Syrian Ambassador to the UN, Bashar al-Jafari told the Security Council on Thursday that the 26, some of whom were affiliated to al-Qaeda, had admitted that they were terrorists and had entered Syria to carry out terrorist attacks, AFP reported.
"The terrorist operations committed in Syria bear the fingerprints of al-Qaeda," he said.
Al-Jafari noted that the terrorists were in the Syrian government's detention and that they had made confessions shown on Syrian television.
He added that 12 foreign terrorists had also been killed in recent clashes with Syrian security forces.
"We have a list that contains 12 names of foreign terrorists killed in Syria, including one French citizen, one British citizen, one Belgian citizen," he told the council.
The envoy also accused "some regional and international states" of sending militants, funds, and arms to "terrorist groups" in Syria. "Providing the armed groups in Syria with money and weapons is real."
Jafari called on the council "to take immediate necessary action in order to stop all terrorist activities taking place in Syria and to exert maximum pressure on the states, which are facilitating and financing and inciting the groups that are perpetrating this terrorism."
Earlier on Thursday, 55 people were killed and almost 400 others injured in two massive bomb attacks in the al-Qazzaz district in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
The Security Council also condemned the attacks, calling on all parties to "immediately and comprehensively" implement the UN-Arab League envoy, Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan.
On Wednesday, a bomb attack, in which six Syrian soldiers were wounded, targeted a Syrian military truck escorting a convoy of UN observers near the southwestern Syria city of Dara'a. Neither the head of the UN mission, Major General Robert Mood nor any of the other monitors in the convoy sustained injuries.
A number of UN observers are currently monitoring a ceasefire in Syria that took effect on April 12.
The ceasefire was part of the peace plan proposed by Annan in March.
The first group of the UN observers arrived in Damascus on late April 15. They were approved for the mission according to the UNSC Resolution 2042, which had been passed a day earlier.
On April 21, the Security Council met and unanimously voted on Resolution 2043 to send a mission of 300 observers to Syria.
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