Ahead of PM Modi’s visit, India backed Mauritius’ claims over Chagos, a strategically located Indian Ocean archipelago that ...

China has built up economic and military ties across the Indian Ocean. The region holds 40% of the world’s offshore oil and ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the Skip to main ...

This American air-base in the Indian Ocean has been part of US-UK talks as London plans to hand the island over to Mauritius.

An American-British military base at, Diego Garcia, an atoll in the islands, hosts one of America’s top submarine bases. The issue could rival that of Ukraine. “I’m hopeful that President Trump will ...

The Hawaiian Islands (to include Pearl Harbor on Oahu) are the central Pacific's perfect base area. Tiny Diego Garcia is the Indian Ocean's rough Hawaii equivalent. Because of Location: The island ...

After US President Donald Trump’s go-ahead, the United Kingdom and Mauritius are expected to seal the Chagos Islands deal ...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was inclined to back a deal between Britain and Mauritius over the future of a U.S.-UK military base in the Chagos Islands, in a boost for British Prime ...

After being convicted of assault and sexual crimes, he was granted refuge in Diego Garcia - the largest island of the Chagos ...

President Donald Trump signaled support for a British deal to cede control of the Indian Ocean island chain that hosts a ...

As per the new understanding, the UK and the United States get to keep using the military base in Diego García Island ... including Diego Garcia. “The object of the exercise is to get some ...

Mauritius became independent in 1968 but London retained control of the Chagos, and forcibly displaced up to 2,000 people to ...