Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'ịbụ onye ndị si n'agbụrụ Hamdanid gbara ọsọ ndụ gbara ume, caliph al-Aziz nke Fatimid malitere mwakpo mbụ na 992, n'okpuru onye ọchịchị Damaskọs, ọchịagha ndị Turkey bụ́ Manjutakin. Onye ọchịagha Fatimid wakporo alaeze ukwu ahụ, merie ndị agha Byzantine n'okpuru "doux" nke Antiọk, Michael Bourtzes, na June 992, ma nọchibido Aleppo. Otú ọ dị, ọ kwadoghị nnọchibido ahụ n'ike, ma obodo ahụ nwere ike iguzogide ya ruo mgbe, n'oge opupu ihe ubi nke 993, mgbe ọnwa iri na atọ nke mkpọsa gasịrị, a manyere Manjutakin ịlaghachi Damaskọs n'ihi enweghị ihe oriri. N'oge opupu ihe ubi nke 994, Manjutakin malitere mwakpo ọzọ, merie Bourtzes ọzọ na Agha nke Orontes, were Homs, Apamea na Shayzar ma nọchibido Aleppo ruo ọnwa iri na otu. Mkpọchi ahụ dị irè karị n'oge a ma mee ka e nwee ụkọ nri n'oge na-adịghị anya. Sa'id al-Dawla tụrụ aro ịrara onwe ya nye Manjutakin, mana mkpebi siri ike nke Lu'lu' mere ka ndị na-agbachitere obodo ahụ guzogide ruo mgbe mbata mberede nke eze ukwu Byzantine, Basil nke Abụọ, na Syria na Eprel 995. Basil, onye e
na-eme mkpọsa na Bulgaria, zara arịrịọ Hamdanids maka enyemaka, wee gafee Asia Minor na naanị ụbọchị iri na isii n'isi ndị agha 13,000; ọbịbịa ya na mberede kpatara ụjọ na ndị agha Fatimid: Manjutakin gbara ụlọikwuu ya ọkụ wee laghachi na Damaskọs na-enweghị ọgụ.