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

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

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 protested outside the U.K. Parliament on Monday LONDON — Islanders who ...

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 ...

The policy reversal comes as Britain agrees to hand over control of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

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 ...

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 ...