With British PM Keir Starmer seeking ‘strong protections’ for the US-British base on Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago is ...

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

Until now, the military has limited itself to a supporting role at the border: surveilling for illegal crossings by ground ...

The Government is negotiating a "long-term lease" for the US and UK to continue operations on the Diego Garcia military base, and is reported to be offering nearly £9 billion. But Trump's team is ...

The military base, located on Diego Garcia, the largest of the chain of tropical islands off the tip of India, has supported US military operations from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Those around the president-elect have been critical of the deal due to the implications of the strategically important Diego Garcia military base used by the US and UK. When asked about reports ...

The UK government has said that it will not finalise a deal to transfer the Chagos Islands to Mauritius until the incoming US President-elect Donald Trump administration has had an opportunity to ...

Britain struck a deal in October to hand control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island of the ...

The military base, located on Diego Garcia, the largest of the chain of tropical islands off the tip of India, has supported U.S. military operations from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.

In October, the Government announced that Mauritius will be sovereign over the Chagos islands, and then lease back the Diego Garcia military base. But allies of US president-elect Donald Trump ...

"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 ...

"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 a ...