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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr Lammy told MPs that the US, which uses Diego Garcia as a base within striking distance of China, 'strongly encouraged' Britain to do the deal. The Foreign Secretary said that otherwise it was ...

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 ...

Diego Garcia's location outside the cyclone belt is part ... The island is an important forward operating base for the U.S. Air Force's bomber fleet. Two B-52H strategic bombers deployed to ...

Diego Garcia’s strategic location allows the US and UK militaries to quickly access East Africa, West Asia and South and Southeast Asia. The military base serves as a staging area for the build ...