The US Senate’s consent would be needed for changes to the 1966 treaty that grants Britain and the US the right to use the ...

How the little-known atoll of Diego Garcia is becoming another flashpoint in the global contest between the U.S. and China ...

A Republican senator has introduced legislation that could torpedo Sir Keir Starmer's controversial agreement to transfer the ...

The US could be granted powers to sink the UK's Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius after a senator put forward a new proposal ...

There have been many twists and turns over the years in this dispute, including Trump's differences with Starmer over Greenland and Iran.

The Chagos issue lies at the crossroads of decolonisation, great-power rivalry, nuclear concerns, and Indo-Pacific security. How the UK, US, Mauritius, India, and other regional actors navigate the tr ...

Under the American and British flags, Diego Garcia defends the Indo-Pacific region against aggressors who do not trouble their consciences about laws, pacts, or the rights of weaker nations. That’s ...

Diego Garcia, one of the Chagos Islands, has been a UK and US airbase since the 1960s - Getty Russia has pushed for Mauritius ...

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The BBC said a government source has denied that the UK Parliament has halted a ratification process to turn over the control ...

The British government’s proposed deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to an unrelated African country would be one of the most detrimental and self-inflicted wounds in the history of global foreign ...

Sir Keir Starmer has once again paused his attempt to hand over my homeland to Mauritius without the permission of my people.