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

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

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

Britain says it is surrendering the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after years of struggle for control of the territory Read ...

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 Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth on Friday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for completing our ...

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

The United Kingdom Foreign Office on Thursday said it had reached an agreement to hand over the rule of the Chagos Islands to ...

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 years. The UK government confirmed yesterday ...