# LNA completes withdrawal from western Libya after the failed Tripoli offensive Date: 2020 ## The fact On 5 June 2020 the Western Libya campaign’s second phase ended with Government of National Accord forces completing the withdrawal of [Khalifa Haftar](/people/khalifa-haftar)’s Libyan National Army from western Libya, after Turkish intervention reversed the 4 April 2019 march on Tripoli. It does not unwrite 4 April 2019. Do not invent KIA as Contribution.size. Saddam Haftar remains unresolved and is not minted. ## Context He remained eastern commander. He did not sit as every retreating unit or as Turkey. 4 April 2019 order is parent. January 2020 oil shutdown is a parallel parent. August 2025 deputy-commander decree for Saddam is a later child. Keep LNA completes withdrawal from western Libya after the failed Tripoli offensive on 2020-06-05 separate from neighbouring 4 April 2019 Tripoli order, January 2020 oil shutdowns, June 2020 withdrawal, and August 2025 deputy-commander decree. The commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army can order offensives and shut terminals in territory he holds. He does not sit as every LNA unit, as NOC’s Tripoli board, as the GNA, as Wagner, or as the UN. This run does not mint Saddam Haftar and does not mint ukraine-war. ## Evidence and sources United Nations Support Mission in Libya carries the official instrument or communique. Al Jazeera records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is parallel power: a completed failure of the capital offensive, leaving eastern parallel command intact. ## What is established and what is not Established: By 5 June 2020 the LNA had been pushed out of western Libya; the 4 April 2019 offensive had failed. Not established: A unique KIA integer from that week as Contribution.size, or that eastern command ended. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. LNA retreated. GNA and Turkish backing reversed the front. He remained eastern commander.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies LNA completes withdrawal from western Libya after the failed Tripoli offensive, not a later speech about LNA completes withdrawal from western Libya after the failed Tripoli offensive. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. LNA completes withdrawal from western Libya after the failed Tripoli offensive on 2020-06-05 is not a licence to treat every later United Nations Support Mission in Libya communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average LNA completes withdrawal from western Libya after the failed Tripoli offensive into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He had ordered the march. LNA retreated. GNA and Turkish backing reversed the front. He remained eastern commander. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Khalifa Haftar: https://factrail.ai/people/khalifa-haftar ## Drivers - Haftar LNA parallel power, Tripoli offensive and oil coercion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/haftar-lna-parallel-power - Capacity for Peaceful Transfer of Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/capacity-for-peaceful-transfer-of-power ## Sources - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/4/27/turkeys-military-helps-turn-the-tide-in-libyan-civil-war - https://unsmil.unmissions.org/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ly-haftar-tripoli-fail-2020