Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the British Isles, is desperate to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, yet another ...

The base sits on Diego Garcia, "the largest of 55 islands that form the Chagos Archipelago and is known as the 'Footprint of Freedom' for its shape, regional location, and strategic importance ...

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

The largest Chagos island hosts the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia naval and air base. It is one of the U.S. military's main ways of projecting power into the Indo-Pacific, a region toward which the ...

It is that of the Chagos Islands, the largest of which, Diego Garcia, hosts a British-American base. Its construction in the early 1970s was preceded by the forcible expulsion of 1,500 Chagossians ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s, Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia ...

Foreign Office pays out for flights, mostly business class, and hotels to negotiate lease of Diego Garcia air base ...

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 ...

and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory. In the 1960s and 1970s Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia ...