The United Kingdom is on the cusp of returning one of its last colonies to its native inhabitants, but national security experts say the move could have dire consequences for the US.

Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian Ocean, is about 1,300 miles northeast of Mauritian capital Port Louis.For half a century, it has been a staging area for major ...

The Chagos Islands became a British Indian Ocean Territory in 1965, when they were legally severed from Mauritius, three years ahead of its independence. Mauritius, ...

A paradise island in the Indian Ocean has become the centre of a complex legal dispute, a battle for control – and a "prison" for stranded migrants. In 2021, Sri Lankan Tamils fleeing ...

Last month, the US blocked a British Indian Overseas Territory (BIOT) court from entering the British territory of Diego Garcia—part of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, and prevented a ...