The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

Sir Keir Starmer clashed with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over the deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

The island’s location, as shown in the Google Maps screenshot below, offers great strategic value to America both for defense and offense. Diego Garcia (Google Maps) The base is a difficult ...

The US armed forces work alongside the UK British forces on the island to continue the Navy's mission of supporting maritime trade around the world. NSF Diego Garcia sits on an atoll in the ...

"When the Americans realise that... Diego Garcia, their most important military base in the world, may effectively be rendered pretty useless, I think the special relationship will be fractured in ...