Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

Britain ceded control over the Chagos Archipelago after years of negotiations with Mauritius. India has maintained strong ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

Asylum seekers have been held on a tiny British tropical island that has no permanent population for the last three years.

India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important ...

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

Activists have decried a deal that the UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius with the exception of ...