After it was agreed to make peace with the Sultan of Cairo, although it proved impossible to be signed. In late September 1367, there were other attacks on the Syrian coast, recapture and pillaging of Tripoli and other cities across the Syrian coast including Tartus and Baniyas. However, the invading forces could not land at Latakia, due to a storm, then they moved north to attack Ayas, but opted not to storm the nearby castle, before returning to Famagusta, to raid Sidon and capture three merchantman ships and another vessel on the way back to Cyprus afterwards. As Leontios Makhairas writes, the reason that Peter could not keep Tripoli was because the city did not have walls.