The archipelago is home to a joint US-UK military base, a strategically important military asset in the Indian Ocean.

For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames. Located ...

There are signs of unease within the Government about the plan to hand over the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Phillipe Sands, who compared Britain’s possession of territory to Russian invasion of Crimea, attended ceremony in 2022 ...

Air base could become hotbed for Beijing’s spyware and missile technology, fears former Diego Garcia commander ...

The Conservative leader criticised plan as an "immoral surrender", while Starmer says Badenoch is "not fit to be prime ...

Keir Starmer has insisted that a deal on the 'legal certainty' of the Chagos Islands is 'vital to national security'.

Open the Youtube video As we all know by now the Government has been desperately trying to reach a deal with Mauritius to ...

The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – but the UK government has ...

And media reports from the Indian Ocean suggest a 'special ... going to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, which has been a British overseas territory for more than 200 years.

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965 and went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for ...

The Reform UK leader claimed Starmer’s government ‘lied’ over why it wanted to hand over the Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius ...