Islamic State Militants One Mile Away From Baghdad

Islamic State militants are reported to be just one mile away from Iraq's capital, Baghdad.

A spokesperson of The Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation in the Middle East said that the Islamic State militants were on their way to Baghdad on Monday morning. "The Islamic State are now less than 2km away from entering Baghdad," the spokesperson said.

"They said it could never happen and now it almost has. Obama says he overestimated what the Iraqi Army could do. Well you only need to be here a very short while to know they can do very little," he said, reports The Independent.

The Vicar of Baghdad, Andrew White, has sent an SOS from the Iraqi capital on Monday saying that the Islamic State militants were very close to the city.

"ISIS are now just 5 miles away from Baghdad," White, wrote on his Facebook page.  "Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy. We need you," he wrote, reports Daily News.

White also said in the post that Iraqi military was no match for the Islamic State militants.

 "This morning I was with one of my soldiers who is assigned by the government to protect me," White wrote. "I asked him what he would do if he saw ISIS coming. He told me he would take off his uniform and run," Write wrote, reports Daily News.

Meanwhile, Islamic State militants showered the Kurdish city of Kobani with mortar and artillery shells on Monday, said Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Nawaf Khalil, a Kurdish official, reports the Associated Press.

The U.S. led airstrikes have made the Islamic State militants more resolute in their aim to seize the area and thus increase their control over the vast swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, Kurdish official's and activists said.

"Instead of pushing them back, now every time they hear the planes, they shell more," Ahmad Sheikho, an activist said about the Islamic State militants.