The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

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

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 most important and ...

SOMEWHERE in the darkest reaches of a secret Ministry of Defence archive, a team of military planners must be dusting off a ...

Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, which house a U.S.-British military base, ...

Lefty lawyers” who “hate and are ashamed” of the UK are partly to blame for the government possibly paying slavery ...

If Britain wants to remain a reliable partner in our security alliance, it must be willing to defend its sovereignty. As much as President Trump uses unpredictability as a diplomatic tool, I can ...

The foreign ministry hit back at reports that Britain would pay Mauritius up to £18bn ($22bn) to use Diego Garcia island in the Indian Ocean archipelago where the base is. Britain and its former ...