On December 26, 2007 (November 17, 2007 in the lunar calendar), the US troops stationed in Iraq suffered heavy losses. The situation in Iraq is still grim. On December 26, 2007, US soldiers extinguished a fire at a small US military camp in the town of Baiji, Iraq. On the same day, a fire broke out after a mortar attack on a fuel tanker in the US military camp. There is no news of casualties yet. Xinhua News Agency issued on January 10, US President George W. Bush announced an adjustment to Iraq policy, mainly involving the increase of troops to Iraq. However, after the US has increased its troops by about 30,000, the security situation in Iraq has not improved, and various violent attacks continue to occur frequently. According to Iraqi media statistics, violent attacks have killed at least 17,000 Iraqis in the past year; about 900 US troops in Iraq have died, making it the worst year for US troops since the Iraq war in 2003. At the same time, the divisions between various factions in Iraq have widened, national reconciliation is far from being achieved, and economic reconstruction is difficult.