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 ...

The base sits on Diego Garcia, "the largest of 55 islands that form the Chagos Archipelago and is known as the 'Footprint of Freedom' for its shape, regional location, and strategic importance ...

The Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony. Britain purchased the ...

Sir Keir Starmer’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands could allow ... UK give up its claim not just on more than 60 islands including Diego Garcia, where the military base is sited, but ...

The largest Chagos island hosts the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia naval and air base. It is one of the U.S. military's main ways of projecting power into the Indo-Pacific, a region toward which the ...

The global tariffs Trump announced this week include remote territories like Heard and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean ...

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 is part of the Chagos Islands archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The US’s footprint there can be traced back to the waning days of the British Empire. In the 1960s, Britain was ...

To many observers, the most puzzling aspect of Donald Trump's tariffs was that his list included some of the most remote and ...

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 ...