Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

Britain ceded control over the Chagos Archipelago after years of negotiations with Mauritius. India has maintained strong ...

The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

Asylum seekers have been held on a tiny British tropical island that has no permanent population for the last three years.

India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain ...