The islands, named after a Spanish navigator, have a basically symbolic British presence. The United Kingdom hands over the ...

The UK has signed a 99-year agreement with Mauritius to retain operational control of the Diego Garcia base, a key UK-US ...

Consult the map ... In our world of threatened sea lanes, not just the Red Sea but Indian Ocean connections to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans — Diego Garcia's betwixt and between position ...

The atoll of Diego Garcia — the largest of the Chagos Islands, and a relic of the UK’s colonial past — is home to the US Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, a military facility that was ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

Hundreds of Filipino workers are marooned at a U.S. military base on an island in the Indian Ocean because of a dispute between their employer, a major American contractor, and the Philippine ...

The largest Chagos island hosts the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia naval and air base ... tariffs on a range of island enclaves around the world, some of which are uninhabited by any permanent ...

Its remote location, combined with its high-security status, makes Diego Garcia one of the most isolated and restricted places in the world. The island’s modern history began when Portuguese ...

Inspectors from the UN's refugee agency visited Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, to check on their welfare. A draft report says that conditions there amounted to arbitrary detention. The Foreign ...

They include Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands and the site of the strategically positioned military base. Among the reasons for the long-running dispute over the archipelago is the ...