Seems like those pinprick airstrikes from Obama isn’t slowing ISIS down… shocker.

AFP — A monitoring group said Islamic State fighters had seized a string of villages as they closed in on Syria’s third-largest Kurdish town of Ain al-Arab.

“In the past 24 hours, IS fighters have launched a huge offensive and seized at least 16 villages to the east and west of Kobane,” said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights head Rami Abdel Rahman, using the Kurdish name for Ain al-Arab.

“The IS is using heavy weaponry, its artillery and tanks,” he said, adding that thousands of Kurdish fighters defending the town on the Turkish border were being encircled.

The US estimates that IS has 20,000 to 31,000 fighters, including many foreigners, and there are concerns that returning jihadists could carry out attacks in Western countries.

Australia on Thursday detained 15 people in connection with the plot to behead a random person, in the country’s largest ever counter-terrorism raids.

Prosecutors said the plan, coordinated with a senior IS militant with Australian citizenship, would have seen random people abducted to “gruesomely execute” them on camera.