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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...