Smooth wire fences didn't work either - the cattle simply pushed through them. Barbed wire changed what the Homestead Act could not. Until it was developed, the prairie was an unbounded space ...

Stretching 440 miles from the Swiss border to the North Sea, the line of trenches, dug-outs and barbed-wire fences moved very little between 1914-1918, despite attempts on both sides to break through.

It is reported that the construction of the barbed wire fence will be carried out quickly since soldiers have the experience of creating such barriers on the Polish-Belarusian border WARSAW ...

There has been a border-building spree across Europe in recent years. Fencing at the EU’s external and internal borders grew nearly sevenfold between 2014 and 2022, from 315 to 2,048 kilometres ...

Injuries are common when "jumpers" try to scale the six-metre (20 ft) fences. They are often topped with barbed wire or even coils of razor blades. Fernando Grande-Marlaska, a judge who became ...

At the Dahagram border in Patgram, Lalmonirhat, the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has hung glass bottles on the barbed-wire fence erected right at the zero line, disregarding international norms.

Verma was summoned to the Bangladesh foreign ministry in Dhaka on Sunday amid tensions between the two countries over the construction of barbed-wire fences along the border. In the meeting ...

Bangladesh on Sunday summoned India’s high commissioner in Dhaka to protest the installation of barbed wire fences, calling it a “violation of international law.” Pranay Verma appeared in ...