While the UK and US retain a key strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, the two governments remain apprehensive over ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle ...

Britain struck a deal allowing it to keeping control of a strategically important UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean for ...

After almost 59 years of controversial existence, the last vestige of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, the British ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

The decision to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has taken many by surprise. After years of painful negotiations, ...

After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...

India played a “quiet but important role in the background” during the negotiations, firmly backing the Mauritian position ...

The UK said that “without” the new agreement signed today, “the long-term, secure operation of the [Diego Garcia] military base would be under threat, with contested sovereignty and legal challenges — ...

Ceding the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is meant to keep the Diego Garcia military base, London has said Britain ceded its ...

Britain today said it will give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but will keep its strategic joint military ...