The pro-Gaddafi forces continued to push further east and started the second phase of the battle of Ra's Lanuf.

[4] By the end of the day, after a series of artillery duels, the rebels retreated from the town in hundreds of vehicles, some of them as far as Ra's Lanuf.

[5] On 23 August 2011, loyalist forces began to disintegrate due to the rebel assault on Tripoli.

Rebel forces reported that they had successfully re-taken Bin Jawad on 28 August 2011.

[6] In January 2016, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant's Libyan branch (ISIL) seized control of the town, they were driven out by Government forces in May 2016.