Army units, in cooperation with back-up forces, launched Monday morning a wide military operation from different axes on the hideouts and hotbeds of terrorist organizations in Khan al-Assal area, in the western countryside of Aleppo city, a military source told SANA on Monday.

The operation aims to establish control on the area located 20 km to the west of Aleppo and uproot terrorism from it, the source added.

Meanwhile, Field sources told SANA that terrorist organizations were inflicted heavy losses in personnel and equipment during the operation, pointing out that the southern entrance of Aleppo city became under the army’s fires.