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

Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia Base Guide The guided-missile submarine USS Georgia (SSGN 729) docks alongside the submarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS 39) at U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego ...

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

Fuel tanks sit at the edge of a miltary airstrip on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean leased from ...

On the remote tropical island of Diego Garcia, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, lies a secretive, strategically vital US military base The base has served as a launchpad for US military ...

to Mauritius but retain control of Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands and home to a strategically important U.S.-U.K. military base, for "an initial period" of 99 years. The Chagos Islands ...

The deal ensures continued operations at Camp Thunder Cove, part of the military base known as Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia ... class ballistic missile submarine armed with up to 20 ...

LONDON (AP) — The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal ...