The Chagos Islands, a tropical archipelago just south of the equator off the tip of India, have been under British control since 1814. They have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory ...

The UK has signed a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back the military base there for an average of £101m a year. Keir Starmer says the deal - which involves leasing ...

David Vine, author of the book “Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia,” says that the U.S. has always had the final word on what happens on the Chagos ...

After 50 years of struggle, Chagossians won a major victory over the most powerful governments in the world. David Vine This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important ...

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.

Britain Confident Chagos Islands Deal on Military Base Will Proceed as Doubts Surface By Andrew MacAskill and Villen Anganan LONDON/PORT LOUIS (Reuters) -Britain is confident its plan to secure ...

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia. The U.K. hands Chagos Islands over to Mauritius but says it will secure a U.S. base ...

Britain evicted as many as 2,000 people from the islands in the 1960s and 1970s so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base, which has supported U.S. military operations from Vietnam to ...

LONDON (AP) — Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago protested outside the U.K. Parliament on Monday against a ...