The island hosts an American super-strategic airbase (meaning it easily handles heavy bombers and air tankers that can refuel ...

Air base could become hotbed for Beijing’s spyware and missile technology, fears former Diego Garcia commander ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of ... along with the U.S. Air Force. It is home to approximately 4,000 military and civilian personnel. In an area where ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

The British surrender of Chagos Islands could allow China to surveil and endanger the British and US aircraft and vessels at ...

The island is named Diego Garcia, the biggest little island in the Indian Ocean's isolated Chagos Archipelago. Never heard of ...

National security will be put at risk unless the Chagos Islands are handed over to Mauritius in a deal set to cost the UK taxpayer billions, Sir Keir Starmer said. The Government plans to cede ...

The Government plans to cede sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory but pay to lease back the strategically important US-UK military base on Diego Garcia. Ministers believe ...

Sir Keir Starmer said Diego Garcia ... 2019 had ‘no force of legal power whatsoever’ (House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA) The plan to give up sovereignty and lease back the base was backed ...