According to No 10, Donald Trump has “signed off” on the highly controversial Chagos Islands deal, drawing to a close the tortuous process of securing the future of the UK-US military base ...

A threatened Iranian attack on British military facilities in the Chagos Islands would trigger a regional conflict, experts say. In recent days, Iranian forces have called for a pre-emptive strike ...

LONDON — Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed U.K. territory that is home to a major U.S. military base, the U.K. government ...

It is that of the Chagos Islands, the largest of which, Diego Garcia, hosts a British-American base. Its construction in the early 1970s was preceded by the forcible expulsion of 1,500 Chagossians ...

The global tariffs Trump announced this week include remote territories like Heard and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean ...

The United Kingdom is set to hand over the Chagos Islands to the small nation of Mauritius after the deal received approval from the White House. A spokesman for British Prime Minister Keir ...

LONDON — Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed U.K. territory that is home to a major U.S. military base, the British government ...

Britain split the 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 Territory.