Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1259 da Mongols kama Syria birnin Damascus, kuma a karshe a 1260, Aleppo. Mamluk Sultan Saif ad-Din Qutuz ya nemi yin kawance da Franks, wanda ya ƙi. A watan Satumba na shekara ta 1260, Mamluks sun ci Mongols a Yaƙin Ain Jalut
, jim kaɗan bayan an kashe Qutuz a Al-Salihiyya, kuma a cewar majiyoyi daban-daban magajinsa Baibars yana da hannu a kisan nasa. (Baibars "ya zo mulki tare da [da] regicide [na Qutuz] a kan lamirinsa" a cewar Tschanz.) Duk da wannan, an nada Baibars sultan, kuma a shekara ta 1263 ya kori Nazarat, ya yi barazanar mamaye Antakiya, kuma ya bayyana a gaban ganuwar Acre. A watan Janairun 1265 Baibars ya kaddamar da farmaki kan Latins, wanda ya fara da Acre, babban birnin ragowar Masarautar Urushalima, amma bai sami damar karbe shi ba, amma ya kayar da 'yan Salibiyya a wasu yaƙe-yaƙe da yawa a Arsuf, Athlith, Haifa, da sauransu. Kuma a cikin 1268 Baibars sun kewaye Antakiya, suna kama garin a ranar 18 ga Mayu. Baibars ya yi alkawarin ba da ran mazauna, amma ya karya alkawarinsa kuma ya lalata garin, ya kashe ko kuma ya bautar da kusan dukkanin jama'a bayan sun mika wuya.