China has built up economic and military ties across the Indian Ocean. The region holds 40% of the world’s offshore oil and ...

Ahead of PM Modi’s visit, India backed Mauritius’ claims over Chagos, a strategically located Indian Ocean archipelago that ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the Skip to main ...

An American-British military base at, Diego Garcia, an atoll in the islands, hosts one of America’s top submarine bases. The issue could rival that of Ukraine. “I’m hopeful that President Trump will ...

The Hawaiian Islands (to include Pearl Harbor on Oahu) are the central Pacific's perfect base area. Tiny Diego Garcia is the Indian Ocean's rough Hawaii equivalent. Because of Location: The island ...

If Trump is looking to add American territory, why not step into the UK’s farcical negotiations with Mauritius?

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Mauritius on Tuesday for talks on upgrading strategic ties, days after ...

Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer ...

just as are the shore reefs of the neighbouring atoll of Diego Garcia; but the lagoon contains many knolls abundantly covered with living coral, and there is reason to think that living coral also ...

As per the new understanding, the UK and the United States get to keep using the military base in Diego García Island ... including Diego Garcia. “The object of the exercise is to get some ...

Mauritius became independent in 1968 but London retained control of the Chagos, and forcibly displaced up to 2,000 people to ...