[3][1] For his success against Ilyas Pasha, he was promoted to the rank of vizier and appointed back to Damascus in 1632 to eliminate Fakhr al-Din II, a Druze chief and sanjak-bey (district governor).
He escorted the Druze leader through Damascus, where the city's residents congratulated Ahmed Pasha and local poets sang his praises.
He had his properties in Tyre and al-Jazira near Baalbek endowed for his own tekkiye (Sufi lodge) in the town of al-Qadam, called al-Asali, and the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
[1][8] Ahmed Pasha was reassigned as a commander of the imperial vanguard in the war with Safavid Iran, playing a distinguishing role in the sack of Tabriz in 1635.
[1] For his efforts against rebels in Anatolia, Fakhr al-Din in Syria and the Safavids, Abdel Nour noted that Ahmed Pasha played "a prominent part in the revival of the Ottoman Empire under Murad IV".