It is a porcelain insulator and piece of barbed stainless steel alarm wire from the Berlin Wall. I obtained it in 1999 when the wall was being dismantled. It makes me think about the time when ...

It was constructed in just two weeks, initially as a makeshift barbed wire and concrete block wall ... click through and be reminded of how quickly the Berlin Wall went up, and the way it cut ...

East German police and soldiers sealed the most frequently used border crossings between East and West Berlin with barbed wire. Soviet troops began to replace the wire with a concrete wall.

The Border Patrol reinforced the border wall with wire in urban areas near ports of entry in Nogales and San Luis.

When the Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago ... And fallout from the original trauma — the sealing behind concrete and barbed wire of more than 16 million fellow citizens for 28 years — endures.

Thirty-two years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, there are now 1,800km ... which witnessed 1.8m migrants flee to Europe. The barbed wire and steel column fence, which spans Hungary's border ...

when similar efforts were made to reinforce the border wall in response to a migrant caravan headed to the U.S.-Mexico border, local leaders and residents in Nogales criticized the barbed-wire ...