Kamacha, a strategically important border fortress in the border wars between the Empire and the Ummayads and Abbasids, had first fallen to the Muslims in 679 and has since changed hands frequently.

It is besieged unsuccessfully by the Abbasids in 767.

Selim's forces capture the great fortress of Kamakh and establish control over Kurdistan, formerly a Persian vassal, which is now incorporated into the Ottoman Empire.