Syrian forces on Saturday launched a major attack against the fighting positions of Daesh terrorists in al-Tiyas Hills, situated about 90 kilometers east of the provincial capital city of Homs, claiming the lives of large groups of them, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported.

A battle tank as well as several sport utility vehicles (SUV) belonging to the Takfiri militants were destroyed in the process of the operation as well.

In a separate development on Friday, two civilians were killed in an airstrike carried out by the US-led coalition purportedly fighting Daesh in Syria.

Local sources said the aerial attack targeted Ghazban village near the country’s Daesh-held northern city of al-Raqqah, located on the northeast bank of the Euphrates River and about 455 kilometers northeast of the capital, Damascus.

The US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be the Daesh terrorists’ positions inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.

The coalition has repeatedly been accused of targeting and killing civilians. It has also been largely incapable of fulfilling its declared aim of dislodging terrorists.

Syria has been gripped by civil war since March 2011 with various terrorist groups, including Daesh, currently controlling parts of it.