The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK military base, a strategically important military asset in the Indian Ocean.

Xue Hanqin was one of the international judges who ruled Britain should hand the strategically important territory to ...

The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...

Air base could become hotbed for Beijing’s spyware and missile technology, fears former Diego Garcia commander ...

If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much ...

Sir Keir Starmer has warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status ...

The Chagos fiasco may yet do for Keir Starmer. As well as being calamitous in itself, it confirms the negatives that voters ...

Sir Keir Starmer clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

Open the Youtube video As we all know by now the Government has been desperately trying to reach a deal with Mauritius to ...

Diego Garcia is the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian ... The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then colony, Mauritius ...

Mauritius is poised to sign off a deal to take control of the Chagos Islands from ... to hand over control of the archipelago - formally the British Indian Ocean Territory - with just a week ...

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – but the UK government has ...