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

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

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

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

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

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 UK said that “without” the new agreement signed today, “the long-term, secure operation of the [Diego Garcia] military base would be under threat, with contested sovereignty and legal challenges — ...

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

The United Kingdom has announced it is giving up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that will secure ...