The U.S. has described the base, which is home to about 2,500 mostly American personnel, as "an all but indispensable ...

Shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel said ‘Starmer and Lammy need to come to their senses and ditch the deal’ ...

The island of Diego Garcia, home to one of the most mysterious US military bases, is plagued by controversy and entangled in ...

In politics, there is usually something to be said for any course of action, even if it is not necessarily the one that one ...

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are being ...

Mauritius is still holding out on a deal to regain control of the strategic Chagos Islands from Britain, despite pressure from the United States which has a key military base there.

The British government says it still plans to hand over a contested Indian Ocean archipelago, which is home to a ...

The Government insisted the deal to give up sovereignty over the Chagos Islands but lease back the Diego Garcia base was ...

Sri Lankan Tamil migrants were held in a camp on the Indian Ocean island, which is the site of a secretive UK-US military ...

British authorities illegally detained more than 60 asylum seekers on the remote island of Diego Garcia for over three years, a British judge ruled on 16 December.

The Chagos Islands deal could prevent the US from keeping nuclear weapons on its military base, defence figures have warned.

Under the deal, the U.K.-U.S. naval and bomber base on the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, would remain under U.K. control for at least 99 years. When it made the announcement, Britain’s ...