The U.S. has been steadily amassing aircraft at Diego Garcia for months, signaling readiness for any military operation in ...

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 islands, named after a Spanish navigator, have a basically symbolic British presence. The United Kingdom hands over the ...

“It is no exaggeration to say that Diego Garcia — the largest of the Chagos Islands — hosts the most strategically important U.S. air and logistics base in ... Party’s military and ...

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 ...

The UK has signed a 99-year agreement with Mauritius to retain operational control of the Diego Garcia base, a key UK-US ...

The deal would allow the U.K. and U.S. to maintain the Diego Garcia military base. However, following a change in leadership in Mauritius, Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has expressed reservations ...

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 ...

Diego Garcia ... China's naval support base in Djibouti in the horn of Africa remains its only publicly acknowledged overseas military facility, according to Newsweek's map of American and ...

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 ...