THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the group to ...

Asylum seekers have been held on a tiny British tropical island that has no permanent population for the last three years.

British foreign secretary says agreement will secure future of base at Diego Garcia, largest in chain of remote islands off ...

More than 50 years after the U.K. expelled thousands of locals from the Chagos Islands, the British government has agreed to ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

It sparked a long legal dispute, due to the island's unusual status as part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot), BBC News reports. The UK government had argued that bringing them to ...

Decades ago, the tropical archipelago just south of the equator off the tip of India, was given the IO country code and was ...

Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain ...

Diego Garcia is off-limits to any non-military personnel. This restriction also applies to the wider British Indian Ocean Territory, which encompasses the islands. Because of these ...

A future treaty to that effect will end London's administration of what it currently calls the British Indian Ocean Territory. Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian ...

Mauritius has claimed the archipelago -- renamed the British Indian Ocean Territory -- since its independence in 1968 and has garnered increased international support. In 2019 the International ...