Other cowmen adopted barbed wire, using it to fence off private ranches. And while barbed wire could enforce legal boundaries, many fences were illegal - attempts to commandeer common land for ...

The dismantling of the controversial barbed wire fence which had been placed in and around Cyprus’ buffer zone near the villages of Akaki, Peristerona, and Astromeritis to kerb migrant flows has ...

"Such activities, particularly the unauthorised attempts to construct barbed wire fencing and the related operational actions by BSF, have caused tensions and disturbances along the border ...