Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The agreement demonstrates the UK government’s commitment to safeguarding global security and averting threats to peace and ...

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

Asylum seekers have been held on a tiny British tropical island that has no permanent population for the last three years.

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

Activists have decried a deal that the UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius with the exception of ...

Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth on Friday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for “completing our ...