Most bases and outposts were closed, and troops were cut below the minimum needed to successfully train and assist the Afghan military.
Updated, Oct. 11 | 3rd Ward, the Brooklyn art, design and educational work space, where for seven years students and artisans have built wood furniture, learned about photography and pursued other creative endeavors, in Bushwick and at an outpost in Philadelphia, is closing, an owner, Jason Goodman, announced on Thursday.
But before Combat Outpost Keating could be closed, the insurgents struck.
The embassy was among the many foreign outposts here that were closed in the early days of the conflict, which began in March and escalated into the most violent of the uprisings convulsing the Middle East.
After 15 years, Deutsche Guggenheim, an outpost of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Berlin, is closing at the end of the year.
New Horizons is closing in on Pluto, once thought to be the last of the planets and a lonely outpost on the solar system's edge.
This once amazing Middle Eastern outpost is now closed for business.
At the top of Ventoux are a military outpost and a restaurant, which was closed.
In Cilacap, Sudirman's school had been closed and turned into a military outpost; this was part of a widespread effort to close private schools.
The next day, an attempted visit to a Nick's tourist outpost in Blue Mountain Beach, about 20 miles south, was thwarted; it was closed for the season.
