The Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony. Britain purchased the islands for £3m, but Mauritius has argued that it was illegally forced to ...

Diego Garcia, an atoll and one of the largest of the 52 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is geographically part of the Chagos Archipelago -- a British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which is ...

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “one of the worst foreign policy failures in years” after Donald Trump signed off the deal for Britain to give away the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Downing Street ...

A threatened Iranian attack on British military facilities in the Chagos Islands would trigger a regional conflict, experts say. In recent days, Iranian forces have called for a pre-emptive strike ...

Britain and Mauritius are finalising a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed UK territory that is home to a major US military base, the UK government said Tuesday.

MPs have slammed Labour’s “disregard” for the environmental consequences of their Chagos Islands surrender. Minister Baroness Chapman confirmed that there has been an agreement with the ...

It is that of the Chagos Islands, the largest of which, Diego Garcia, hosts a British-American base. Its construction in the early 1970s was preceded by the forcible expulsion of 1,500 Chagossians ...

In response to a warning from US President Donald Trump, Iran has threatened to attack the US-UK military base at Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean ...

The United Kingdom is set to hand over the Chagos Islands to the small nation of Mauritius after the deal received approval from the White House. A spokesman for British Prime Minister Keir ...

The UK government is working with Mauritius to finalise a deal on the future of the Chagos Islands, Downing Street has said. Under the proposed agreement, Mauritius would gain sovereignty of the ...