13 US Troops Killed Since Monday

Thirteen U.S. troops killed in Iraq



BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Thirteen U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq since Monday, U.S. military officials said, bringing the number of American deaths in the war to 999.

Six soldiers and seven Marines were killed in the fighting. The latest death came Tuesday morning in western Baghdad when a soldier from the U.S. Army's 89th Military Police Brigade was killed when a patrol was attacked. Another soldier was killed Tuesday in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Baghdad's Sadr City.

Meanwhile, Iraqi police said two Italian women and three Iraqis were abducted by kidnappers dressed as Iraqi National Guard members.