The military under Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki administration was known for its corruption, Maliki was Minister of National Security affairs, Minister of the Interior and Prime Minister up to September 8, 2014. When ISIS increased its activity in the first part of the 2013–2017 War in Iraq, the Iraqi army went through several spectacular debacles, including the June 2014 northern Iraq offensive which saw the catastrophic collapse of the army in that region and the fall of Mosul, where an army of 1,500 ISIS militants routed away over 60,000 declared Iraqi soldiers.