LONDON — The United Kingdom has signed a deal to hand over ... Starmer said the deal to secure the U.K.-U.S. military base in Diego Garcia — to be leased for more than $100 million ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people.

Chagos deal cost is ‘going rate for best defensive real estate’, says ex-FO boss - The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

Mauritius is pushing the UK for sovereignty over the Chagos Islands and billions of dollars, but the US could scupper its plans, reports Seán Carey.

London (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A group of 60 Tamil migrants from Sri Lanka who had been living in precarious conditions for more than three years on the remote island of Diego Garcia, a British ...

Sir Keir Starmer defends the UK's £3.4bn Chagos islands deal after Kemi Badenoch says it is bad value for money.

Donald Trump’s incoming administration in the United States has “very deep disquiet” over the UK’s plans to give up sovereignty of the Diego Garcia military base, Nigel Farage warned.. The ...

Diego Garcia's Strategic Role The joint UK-U.S. base at Diego Garcia has long served as a launch point for major U.S. military campaigns, including operations in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003).

Simultaneously, long-range bombers at Diego Garcia are nothing new; the United States used B-52 bombers from Diego Garcia against both Iraq and Afghanistan.

The United States (US) has sent six stealth B-2 bombers to Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean.The island is known as an American military base. As cited from Times of India, satellite ...

Last year, during a brief conflict between Israel and Iran, UK warplanes were reported to have helped shoot down incoming Iranian drones heading for Israel. But in this conflict an Israeli ...