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 ...

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

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

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

Diego Garcia, a small atoll in the Indian Ocean, has played a pivotal role in global geopolitics. Its strategic importance, ...

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

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

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 ...

Blame game takes in James Cleverly and Liz Truss as UK announces decision to hand archipelago back to Mauritius in deal to ...

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

In the early 1970s, Britain evicted almost 2,000 residents to Mauritius and the Seychelles to make way for an airbase on ...