The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

A satellite communications system used by the US and UK to run military operations is central to efforts by Britain to ...

Join the NonStop Local Chord group and always be in the know. The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island ...

Sir Keir Starmer said Diego Garcia is ‘vital to our national security’ (Stefan Rousseau/PA) National security will be put at risk unless the Chagos Islands are handed over to Mauritius in a ...

The Government plans to cede sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory but pay to lease back the strategically important US-UK military base on Diego Garcia. Ministers believe ...

The Government plans to cede sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory but pay to lease back the strategically important US-UK military base on Diego Garcia. Ministers believe international ...

National security will be put at risk unless the Chagos Islands are handed over to Mauritius in a deal set to cost the UK taxpayer billions, Sir Keir Starmer said. The Government plans to cede ...