Recent media reports suggesting Britain might have to pay double for the U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia were ...

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

The deal would allow the U.K. and U.S. to maintain the Diego Garcia military base. However, following a change in leadership in Mauritius, Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has expressed reservations ...

"Diego Garcia is an island hosting a military base with virtually no civilian population, and is not a suitable location for long-term residence for this group," a spokesperson said in a brief ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “This government inherited a situation where the long-term, secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested sovereignty ...