The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

The current deal involves Britain paying Mauritius £90 million a year for 99 years to maintain control of the US military ...

Exclusive: Communications minister Sir Christopher Bryant has rubbished claims that satellite communication could be removed ...

President Trump's intervention could see further delays after the UK and Mauritius reached a deal on the territory, pending ...

President Trump must intervene to prevent this handover, which would damage U.S. national security and ultimately play into China's hands.

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

Sir Keir Starmer has warned national security could be put at risk without a deal to give “legal certainty” over the status ...

Sir Keir Starmer has defended the controversial Chagos Islands deal after the Conservative leader branded it an "immoral ...

A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the most important and ...