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

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in ... said in a statement. The map locates the Chagos Islands, which includes ...

In 1965, as part of negotiations leading to Mauritian independence, the UK government excised the Chagos Archipelago from colonial Mauritius. The UK kept the islands, which are in a globally strategic ...

Fuel tanks at the edge of a military airstrip on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site ... of its shape and its strategic location in the Indian Ocean, within ...

In a historic move, the UK will be handing over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius while Diego Garcia, the biggest of the 60-island Indian Ocean archipelago ...

After a dispute running for more than 50 years, the United Kingdom will finally hand back the Chagos Islands, an archipelago located in the Indian Ocean, to the southeast African island country of ...

The Chagos Islands, also known as the Chagos Archipelago and the British Indian ... on major international trade routes. The base's location allows the US military to quickly access parts of ...

an archipelago of over 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, were formerly British colonies. Due to the Chagos Islands’ strategic location, London was loathe to cede control – so in 1965 ...

As the years progressed, several generations of Chagos islanders developed a common language and culture. For administrative purposes, Britain grouped the Chagos Archipelago and several other ...

Concerns have been raised over the future of the Falkland Islands after the UK gave up control of a remote archipelago ... a political agreement to hand the Chagos Islands over to Mauritius ...