(CNN)-- The U.S. military death toll in Iraq for December is the second-lowest monthly death toll of the war, although 2007 has ... of the "surge" -- the addition of 30,000 troops in and around ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The national intelligence estimate on Iraq released Friday does not address whether the president's plan to "surge" up to 21,500 troops into Iraq will work, but it lays out an ...

Hernandez joined the Army right after his first year of college around 2007, during what’s known as the “Iraq War troop surge.” He deployed to Iraq in 2008 and stayed for a year.