The B-2 bombers were sent to the island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago as part of the U.S. military's build-up in the region.

The Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony. Britain purchased the ...

To many observers, the most puzzling aspect of Donald Trump's tariffs was that his list included some of the most remote and smallest territories and islands in the world. Places that, in some cases, ...

Sharks are abandoning coral reefs as ocean temperatures rise, leaving these vibrant ecosystems at risk of collapse. Without ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Diego Garcia, an atoll and one of the largest of the 52 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is geographically part of the Chagos Archipelago -- a British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which is ...

Civil servants splashed almost £75,000 on business class flights, hotel stays and taxis during negotiations to surrender the ...

Approval from the White House was necessary to broker the deal due to U.S. military cooperation with the U.K. at the joint Diego Garcia base on the archipelago’s largest island. The Chagos ...

A chunk of British Indian Ocean Territory is the remote Chagos archipelago, embroiled in a long-running dispute between the U.K. government and Mauritius. The largest Chagos island hosts the joint ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.