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

After almost 59 years of controversial existence, the last vestige of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, the British ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

The agreement ends an almost 60-year dispute between the two countries, allowing Chagossians displaced in the early 1970s to return home, and ensuring the continued operation for the next 99 years of ...

Britain evicted as many as 2,000 people from the islands in the 1960s and 1970s so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base, which has supported U.S. military operations from Vietnam to ...

A legal dispute is playing out after asylum seekers arrived on the secretive island in the Indian Ocean, with UK authorities ...

Decades ago, the tropical archipelago just south of the equator off the tip of India, was given the IO country code and was ...

Britain said on October 3 it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of the UK-U.S. Diego Garcia military base, and which could also pave the ...

Diego Garcia is the largest of 60 small islands belonging to the Chagos Archipelago, and is a disputed overseas territory of the UK, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), also claimed ...