The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the ...

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

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

Britain's government insisted Thursday that it must hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure continued access to ...

The British government was grilled in parliament on Wednesday as it denied claims by Mauritius that a new deal to return the ...

Britain struck a deal in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of ...

The fishermen had ventured into sea on December 29, 2024, from Thengapattinam harbour on a mechanised boat owned by J. Paul Surgen from Thoothoor, and were detained near the Diego Garcia island in ...

The deal would end Britain's direct control of the islands but give it a lease of 99 years on a joint UK-US military base on the largest island, Diego Garcia. In the Friday call, Starmer ...

The island’s location, as shown in the Google Maps screenshot below, offers great strategic value to America both for defense and offense. Diego Garcia (Google Maps) The base is a difficult ...