Although its land area is modest – only 1.7 square kilometers – Clipperton’s strategic and ecological significance is ...

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

In 1965, shortly before granting Mauritius independence, Britain separated the Chagos Islands, renaming them the British Indian Ocean Territory, and paying £3 million to Mauritius.

Shadowy British base in Indian Ocean could be used for US attacks on Iran Despite Starmer's calls for a calming of tensions, four US B52 bombers were seen at the strategic joint British-American ...

Amid the brewing tensions in West Asia, the Iranian Navy intercepted a British destroyer in the northern Indian Ocean, which was helping to guide an Israeli missile towards Iranian territory.

The Chagos Islands, known in the UK as the British Indian Ocean Territory, host the Diego Garcia military base which is jointly used by British and US forces.

In 1965, the UK controversially detached the Chagos Islands from Mauritius—then a British colony—just three years before granting Mauritius independence, creating the British Indian Ocean ...

What are the Chagos Islands? The remote chain of more than 60 islands is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean off the tip of India, south of the Maldives.

The Chagos Islands - officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory - are located in the Indian Ocean about 5,799 miles (9,332km) south-east of the UK, and about 1,250 miles north-east of ...

Britain split the Chagos Islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean ...