The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing U-turn’.

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

Though few in the United States even know that it exists, the Chagos Archipelago, located in the center of the Indian Ocean, is also home to a major US military base on Diego Garcia that has ...

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is rubber-stamped, peers said.

UK agreement to cede archipelago to Mauritius in exchange for leasing Diego Garcia base criticised by UN panel, Tories and Chagossians ...

In exercising its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius is free to implement a resettlement program on islands other than Diego Garcia. This resettlement will be conducted in accordance ...

Starting in 1968, they were displaced from the chain of islands by British colonial rulers to set up a U.S. military base on Diego Garcia, the archipelago’s largest island.

Once seen as a relic of colonialism, the Chagos Archipelago has evolved into a flashpoint in global strategic competition.

The deal involves leasing back a crucial military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the Chagos Islands, for 99 years.

The Chagos Islands are a strategically significant area, with one of its islands, Diego Garcia, serving as a key military base jointly operated by the UK and the US. It monitors the Malacca Strait ...

The archipelago is best known for the military base on Diego Garcia, which has supported US military operations from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.