This restriction also applies to the wider British Indian Ocean Territory, which encompasses the islands. Because of these restrictions, it is very rare that every day people can visit the islands.

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is strictly out of bounds to most civilians, despite being home to beaches ...

Mauritius has claimed the archipelago — renamed British Indian Ocean Territory — since its independence in 1968 and garnered increasing international support. In 2019 the International Court of ...

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

What are we getting in return? That has been the question critics of the Government have been asking over surrendering the ...

It sparked a long legal dispute, due to the island's unusual status as part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot ... A court hearing took place on Diego Garcia last month over whether ...

The UK has offered dozens of stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian ...

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is a paradise of lush vegetation and white-sand beaches, surrounded by ...

The Indian Ocean archipelago had been a British island territory for over half a century ... Diego Garcia US-UK military base will remain in place and under its current control – thought ...

The Prime Minister is facing major pressure over what critics said was the 'surrender' of the Indian Ocean archipelago almost 6,000 miles from Britain which is home to the US air station.

Shadow foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell also criticised the move as ‘not a deal’ which previous Conservative foreign ...