There is a small island in the Indian Ocean where outsiders are not welcome, and the government of India backs that up with a ...

The White House is reportedly considering a plan that would see the U.S. make a deal to purchase the Chagos Islands after President Donald Trump’s ambitions of seeing the U.S. take control of ...

President Donald Trump is reportedly setting his sights on a new territorial acquisition, and this time it’s not Greenland. The administration is exploring a deal involving a strategically vital ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: Win McNamee/Staff via Getty Images) President Donald Trump is reportedly setting his sights on a new territorial ...

WASHINGTON, DC: Donald Trump has added another pair of islands to his wishlist. After floating the controversial idea of bringing Greenland under US control, the White House is now weighing a plan to ...

June 7 (Reuters) - The White House is considering a plan to buy the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. U.S. officials have drawn up a proposal to bypass the U.K. ‌and ...

One of Michel Mandarin's last memories of his hometown was the U.S. government throwing all the dogs into a gas chamber. In 1967, the British authorities declared that people of the Chagos Islands ...

U.K. minister Steve Reed says Iran's missiles failed to reach the Diego Garcia base in the Indian Ocean. Iran targeted Diego Garcia with a two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile, Israel's ...

The attempted strike on Diego Garcia would mark a major escalation, highlighting Tehran’s apparent ability to target the strategic U.S.-UK base deep in the Indian Ocean and potentially put parts of ...

Iran launched two intermediate-range ballistic missiles aimed at a joint US-UK military base 2,500 miles away in the Indian Ocean, but failed to hit its target, according to a new report. One of the ...

More than a year ago, the UK agreed to grant Mauritius sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, which Britain has governed as the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1965. But the treaty to transfer ...