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 ...

Iran's long-range Khorramshahr missile and the Shahed-136B kamikaze drone could reach the Chagos Islands from southern Iran, a journey of around 2,400 miles. The Diego Garcia naval and air base ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia ...

Approval from the White House was necessary to broker the deal due to U.S. military cooperation with the U.K. at the joint Diego Garcia base on the archipelago’s largest island. The Chagos ...

Diego Garcia is the location of a UK-US military airstrip The UK government is working with Mauritius to finalise a deal on the future of the Chagos Islands, Downing Street has said. Under the ...

US President Donald Trump has approved the UK-Mauritius deal over the Chagos Islands, allowing Britain to transfer sovereignty while leasing Diego Garcia for a 99-year term. The deal is nearing ...

As cited from the Britannica website, Diego Garcia is the southernmost island in the Chagos Archipelago, located in the middle of the Indian Ocean and part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. The ...