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

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

After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...

The transfer of the Chagos Islands marks the beginning of the end of US-UK military cooperation in the region and opens a new ...

Mauritius is getting sovereignty over the remote Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, but Britain will continue to ...

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

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is a paradise of lush vegetation and white-sand beaches, surrounded by crystal blue waters. But this is no tourist destination. It is strictly out of ...

The decision to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has taken many by surprise. After years of painful negotiations, ...

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

For years, Mauritius demanded the UK end its control on the Chagos Archipelago. Why was their ownership a matter of ...

The mystery around this tropical base has more to do with the dodgy way the UK and US manage to steal the island from the ...

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