The islands, named after a Spanish navigator, have a basically symbolic British presence. The United Kingdom hands over the ...

Several F-15 jets have been deployed to an airbase jointly operated by the United States and the United Kingdom, located on a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The United States has ... rent" the Chagos Islands to countries including China, potentially offering Beijing "a military foothold in the Indian Ocean." China's naval support base in Djibouti ...

The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT ... Minister Kier Starmer announced it would return the islands to Mauritius but retain the base, located on the largest island, Diego Garcia.

The Chagos Archipelago consists of approximately 58 small, flat islands located in the central Indian Ocean ... as a key military base jointly operated by the UK and US. It monitors the Malacca ...

Diego Garcia, the air base the US may use if it decides to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, is a speck of an island in the Indian Ocean that few associate with the Middle East. But the US has ...

At such a critical moment in US ... base on Wednesday as he announced his widespread levies. Trump imposed tariffs on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean ...

On the opposite side of the planet, the small Norwegian island and former whaling ... importance to Washington and US national security. The British Indian Ocean Territory faces a 10% tariff.

The British government handed over control of the Indian Ocean’s Chagos ... Chagossians to the Chagos Islands half a century after they were forced out by the US and UK in what Human Rights ...

President Donald Trump signaled support for a British deal to cede control of the Indian Ocean island chain that hosts a joint US-UK military base, bringing Prime Minister Keir Starmer closer to a ...