A new future for the Chagos is approaching. On April 1st a British government spokesman said that Britain was finalising a ...

Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a U.K. territory that is home to a major U.S. military base ...

The United States (US) has sent six stealth B-2 bombers to the remote island of Diego Garcia 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 ...

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.

The UK and Mauritius are close to finalizing a landmark deal to return sovereignty over the Chagos Islands—home to the strategic US base at Diego Garcia—after securing approval from the Trump ...

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 ...

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 ...