The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

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

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

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

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

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

Britain struck a deal to cede sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius, while keeping control of ...

part of the military base known as Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, used by the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and the British armed forces. "It enables the United States to support operations that ...

The deal is meant to secure the future of a secretive military base on the island of Diego Garcia, but it has left the UK without sovereign territorial control over a piece of land that is crucial ...

At the heart of the Chagos issue is the question of Diego Garcia – the largest of the Chagos Island and home to a strategically crucial U.S. military base. As David Vine, the author of “Island ...