By 1209 Georgia challenged Ayyubid rule in the Armenian highlands and led a liberation war for south Armenia.

Using Ivane as a bargaining chip, al-Awhad agreed to release him in return for a thirty year truce with Georgia, thus ending the immediate Georgian threat to the Ayyubids.

This brought the struggle for the Armenian lands to a stall,[7] leaving the Lake Van region to the Ayyubids of Damascus.

In return, he ceded his lands in Mesopotamia to al-Kamil and acknowledged his supremacy, while an-Nasir had to be satisfied with the possession of a principality centered on Kerak in the Transjordan region.

A number of years later, al-Ashraf began to chafe under his brother's authority, and in 1237 allied himself with Kayqubad I, the Seljuk Sultan of Rûm, and various Ayyubid princelings based in Syria, against al-Kamil.