Diego Garcia is one of about 60 islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago or British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot) - the last colony established by the UK by separating it from Mauritius in 1965.

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 ...

New photos show Pentagon continuing mysterious buildup in ... at least six B-2 Spirit bombers were spotted on the runway at Camp Thunder Bay in Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos ...

Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian Ocean, is about 1,300 miles northeast of Mauritian capital Port Louis.For half a century, it has been a staging area for major ...

In the early 1970s, Britain evicted almost 2,000 residents to Mauritius and the Seychelles to make way for an airbase on Diego Garcia, the largest island, which it had leased to the United States ...

The Chagos Islands have been under British control since 1814, when they were ceded by France. The archipelago is best known for the military base on Diego Garcia, which has supported U.S ...

Britain forcibly expelled Diego Garcia’s 2,000 indigenous people—the Chagossians—to build the military base in exchange for a $14 million discount on the UK purchase of US Polaris nuclear ...

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the ...

New photos show Pentagon continuing mysterious buildup in ... at least six B-2 Spirit bombers were spotted on the runway at Camp Thunder Bay in Diego Garcia, the largest island of the Chagos ...

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is a paradise of lush vegetation and white-sand beaches, surrounded by crystal blue waters. But this is no tourist destination.

Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of the UK-U.S. Diego Garcia military base, and which could also pave the ...