In 1252 (650) Bayju Khan, governor of Azerbaijan and Armenia for the Golden Horde, suddenly appeared before Mayafariqin and demanded its surrender.
Batu agreed to hold off invading Mayyafariqin if Al Kamil Muhammad would go in person to the Great Khan Möngke in Karakorum to present his submission.
When he arrived in Karakorum he found a number of other Emirs paying their respects to the Great Khan and offering submission.
[4][5] The Mongols had no intention of allowing these domains to remain even nominally independent, but their strategy involved taking Baghdad first, before moving on to other centres in due course.
[7] Of the remaining Ayyubid states in Syria, Aleppo was brutally conquered, while Homs, Hama and Damascus submitted peacefully.