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

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 ...

While the UK and US retain a key strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, the two governments remain apprehensive over ...

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

Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean is one of the most important US military bases and was used for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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