Kammala wannan jumla: Bayan ya kwace Gundumar Edessa, Ilghazi ya yi zaman lafiya da 'yan Salibiyya. A cikin 1121, ya tafi arewa zuwa Armenia kuma tare da kimanin sojoji 15,000-20,000, gami da maza da surukinsa Mazyad Dubais II ibn Sadaqah da Sultan Malik na Ganja suka jagoranta. Ilghazi ya mamaye Georgia kuma David IV na Georgia ya ci shi a Yaƙin Didgori na 1121. Ilghazi ya mutu a shekara ta 1122, kuma kodayake dan uwansa Belek Ghazi ya mallaki Aleppo, amma a zahiri garin yana karkashin ikon ibn al-Khashshab. Assassins sun kashe Ibn al-Kashshab a cikin 1125, kuma Aleppo ya faɗi ƙarƙashin ikon Zengi, atabeg na Mosul, a cikin 1128. Bayan mutuwar Belek Ghazi, Artuqids ya rabu tsakanin Harput, Hasankeyf da Mardin. Sonan Sokman Rukn al-Daula Dāʾūd, bey na Hasankeyf, ya mutu a 1144, kuma ɗansa Kara Aslan ya gaje shi. Kara Aslan ya yi kawance da Joscelin II na Edessa a kan Zengids, kuma yayin da Joscelin ya tafi a 1144, Zengi ya sake kama Edessa, na farko daga cikin jihohin Crusader da suka fadi (duba
Siege na Edessa). Hasankeyf ya zama mai bautar Zengi kuma.