 Karak and Mont Real in Transjordan soon fell , followed by Safad in the northeastern Galilee . By the end of 1187 the Ayyubids were in control of virtually the entire Crusader kingdom in the Levant with the exception of Tyre , which held out under Conrad of Montferrat . In December , an Ayyubid army consisting of the garrisons of Saladin and his brothers from Aleppo , Hama , and Egypt besieged Tyre . Half of the Muslim naval fleet was seized by Conrad 's forces on 29 December , followed by an Ayyubid defeat on the shoreline of the city . On 1 January 1188 , Saladin held a war council where a withdrawal from Tripoli was agreed . 
