The British Indian Ocean Territory faces a 10% tariff. It’s populated only by about 3,000 British and American military personnel and contractors at the Diego Garcia airbase. The CIA Factbook lists ...

Washington is bolstering its military presence at Diego Garcia amid rising tensions with Iran and ongoing strikes on Yemen's ...

US President Donald Trump's latest tariffs covered nearly every country in the world, including a few remote islands that host American military bases.

President Donald Trump implemented tariffs on several uninhabited islands, Wednesday as part of a confused effort to establish equal trade.

Despite the size and importance of the Indian Ocean, American strategists have often treated it as a backwater. It’s true ...

"The tariffs will have no practical effects on the British Indian Ocean Territory and Chagos Islands as overseas military bases are exempt from the tariffs," Dr. Eric Golson, an economic warfare ...

President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on uninhabited islands and a U.S. military base on Wednesday as he announced his widespread levies. Trump imposed tariffs on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald ...

In the Indian Ocean, they pressured Mauritius, a former British colony, to sell the Chagos Islands for just £3m. To build a military base on Chagos’ largest island, Diego Garcia, the British ...

Amid global focus on Donald Trump's tariff retaliation, the US has quietly executed its largest-ever B-2 bomber deployment in ...

The United States (US) has sent six stealth B-2 bombers to the remote island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said it was up to Iran to decide whether the recent US movement of B-2 bombers was a message to Tehran, as he voiced hope that US-Iran negotiations over Tehran ...

is “an absolutely perfect spot for a military base”. The southwest Indian Ocean, according to him, “is an area where it’s important for India to have areas where their aircraft can support ...