The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a UK Overseas Territory situated halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia and comprising the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, itself comprising ...

advised the UK to relinquish control of the islands and the initiative was endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2022. The Chagos Islands became a British Indian Ocean Territory in ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base.

I recognize that the British Indian Ocean Territory is different from the Falkland Islands, and there are different perspectives, narratives and parameters, but one thing that is not divisible and ...

Tehran has reportedly issued a warning that it will target British forces in the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean if United States ... would strike the joint US-UK naval base on Diego Garcia ...

The UK splashed £1.3million of taxpayer funds ... It is not conditional on negotiations over the British Indian Ocean Territory." ...

THE Chagos Islands made headlines when it was announced they would be handed back to Mauritius. But can you visit the British Indian Ocean Territory? ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No ...