Diego Garcia is the southernmost island in the archipelago. It began to be used as a military station in the seventies, but its importance skyrocketed after the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979.

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 ...

The United States (US) has sent six stealth B-2 bombers to Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean.The island is known as an American military base. As cited from Times of India, satellite ...

Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian Ocean, is about 1,300 miles northeast of Mauritian capital Port Louis.For half a century, it has been a staging area for major ...

However, the CCP’s vessels would focus intensely on Diego Garcia. This small, mysterious island is 2,362 miles due west of Jakarta, Indonesia — in central Nowhere.

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.

Diego Garcia, a UK-owned island 1,100 miles from the nearest major landmass, is a militarised and off-limits atoll at the centre of a territorial dispute with Mauritius. Express.

Instead, Diego Garcia is a not-so-secretive military base jointly administered by the UK and the US. Mired in rumours, the island has been at the centre of a dispute between the UK and Mauritius.

In the early 1970s, Britain evicted almost 2,000 residents to Mauritius and the Seychelles to make way for an airbase on Diego Garcia, the largest island, which it had leased to the United States ...

Donald Trump should reject the United Kingdom's bad deal to transfer its sovereignty over Diego Garcia island to Mauritius. Only China would benefit.

UK cedes Chagos Island sovereignty to Mauritius, retains Diego Garcia airbase By Alistair Smout , Michael Holden and Villen Anganan October 3, 2024 7:11 PM UTC Updated October 3, 2024 ...