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

Mauritius, which is 1,400 miles from the Chagos Islands and never owned them, has brought repeated claims of sovereignty over ...

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has branded Labour's surrender of the Chagos Islands as "total nonsense". Britain is ...

Overseas Territories minister Stephen Doughty confirmed the Government has reached a political agreement with Mauritius over the Chagos Islands, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, ...

Sir Keir Starmer decided to hand over Chagos Islands out of “sheer political correctness”, Boris Johnson has claimed. The ...

Israel has assassinated the leader of Hezbollah and killed many of its members by way of booby-trapped pagers and walky-talkies. After a blitzkrieg ...

The UK was ceded the territories by the French in 1814. Historically, the ­islands were administered as part of ­Britain’s Mauritius colony. But on ­November 8, 1965, the UK discreetly dismembered the ...

The Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, once bastions of U.S. naval supremacy, are slowly transforming into the Achilles’ heel of ...

The .io country code top-level domain (ccTLD) will not disappear anytime soon, at least not within the next five years.

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...