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

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean. It is one of the most important and secretive ...

The British surrender of Chagos Islands could allow China to surveil and endanger the British and US aircraft and vessels at the Diego Garcia military base, according to a former Royal Navy commander ...

Diego Garcia also serves as a critical base for intelligence monitoring of China’s increasing naval and air operations in the region. The base operates at the highest level of security.

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

A B-1B Lancer lands after a bomber task force mission at naval station Diego Garcia on the Chagos Islands Credit: US Air Force photo by Staff Sgt Hannah Malone/Alamy Earlier in January ...

Sir Keir Starmer sought US president’s blessing for lease that will affect joint military base on Diego Garcia ...

Dispute over accord with Mauritius intensifies ahead of talks between UK prime minister and US president next week ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s actions have left the U.S. in a precarious position. They've left his own country in a worse ...