Akbar sent Abdullah Khan Uzbeg to recover Malwa. Thrace also suffered raids in 1324 and 1337, during the reign of Uzbeg Khan. Because he resisted Uzbeg Khan's Islamicization policy, Sasibuqa might have been executed in 1315. Uzbeg Khan continued the alliance with the Mamluks begun by Berke and his predecessors. Abdullah Uzbeg commanded the vanguard which included in its ranks select Turki cavalry.