Iraqi forces regaining ground from Islamic State. Is the tide turning again?

Nope. I don't see any Iraqi Army in the picture. Those are militias. The flag is a big give away. I could have swore I just answered this same question today. But they may have defeated a small ISIS element. When ISIS loses a city they do it on purpose. They will pull out and stop supporting the fight if they know it will take too much. They learned from Kobane.

GySgt Wayne A. Ekblad, just as in any war where neither side actually holds an overwhelming advantage, the tide will be constantly turning.

ISIS/ISIL is far from unstoppable, as evidenced by their inability to unilaterally overcome their opposition in Syria. Despite being the most logistically and tactically competent of the Salafi fundamentalist militias, they still suffer from many of the same growing pains that the Iraqi Army suffers -- limited experience with logistically supporting conventional battlefield operations, limited leadership training, and limited ability to conduct coordinated operations on anything above a tactical level.

Ironically, our "surgically precise" fire support is remarkably unlikely to tip the scales, because a handful of very little bombs intermittently dropped are not going to have the same psychological impact that an Arc Light mission or even a old-fashioned 3-battery TOT of unguided HE raining down for 15 minutes just prior to a ground assault.

Very interesting since there was just another post asking if the Iraqi's have lost their will to fight.
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/have-the-iraqi-s-lost-the-will-to-fight