The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

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 most important and ...

Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the ...

If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

The foreign ministry hit back at reports that Britain would pay Mauritius up to £18bn ($22bn) to use Diego Garcia island in the Indian Ocean archipelago where the base is. Britain and its former ...

Under the terms of its deal, Britain will give away the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean and pay billions over a century to lease back Diego Garcia, the island that hosts the strategically ...