barbed wire

We emerge into a clearing where a 12ft high border fence appears, topped with barbed wire, equipped with sensors and cameras to detect illegal crossings.

Mr Tardy captured a brown‑throated three‑toed sloth clinging to a barbed wire post after crossing a road.

On the drive out that afternoon, between fields of corn and sunflowers, miles of newly uncoiled barbed wire glint in the sunlight.

Reports from the region speak of trenches, bunkers, minefields, anti-tank obstacles and barbed wire.

High on a hill in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, behind a steel gate topped with barbed wire, lies a place few locals speak of, and even fewer visit.