British troops hold Falklands exercise amid Argentina tensions

More than 100 British soldiers and local reservists took part in a six-day military exercise in the Falkland Islands, rehearsing operations including an amphibious assault amid renewed tensions with Argentina over sovereignty and offshore oil development. The exercise, held earlier in October, also included a 20-mile overnight march. The details were attributed to an account of the training, which was described as drawing on elements of the 1982 war. The reports do not establish that military conflict is imminent. The training comes as Argentine President Javier Milei has renewed his country’s claim to the islands, which Britain administers as an overseas territory. Milei has called British control an illegal occupation and threatened action over oil exploration. The two countries fought a war in 1982 after Argentine forces invaded; Argentina surrendered after British forces retook the islands. The dispute has focused in part on the Sea Lion offshore oil project. Argentina said it had asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea to impose provisional measures to halt the development.