In the event of conflict between Washington and Tehran, the remote base Indian Ocean base of Diego Garcia would likely play a ...

open image in gallery Fuel tanks sit at the edge of a miltary airstrip on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major US military base in the middle of the ...

The United States (US) has sent six stealth B-2 bombers to Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean. The island is known as an American military base. As cited from Times of India, satellite ...

To build a military base on Diego Garcia, the British forcibly displaced around 1,500 islanders without compensation into slums in Mauritius and the Seychelles. In 1966, the Washington and London ...

Starmer said the deal to secure the U.K.-U.S. military base in Diego Garcia — to be leased for more than $100 million a year — is vital for Britain's defense, intelligence and national security.

Britain evicted as many as 2,000 people from the islands in the 1960s and 1970s so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base, which has supported U.S. military operations from Vietnam to ...

NEW DELHI: Britain on Thursday said it will cede sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius as part of a deal allowing the UK and the US to maintain a strategic military base on the atoll ...