The islands, named after a Spanish navigator, have a basically symbolic British presence. The United Kingdom hands over the ...

After Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, the United States has deployed heavy, nuclear-capable bombers in Guam to beef up the ...

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have reached a final deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands but have been barred from signing it by a British judge ...

The United States has applauded a landmark deal between the United Kingdom and Mauritius that secured its continued use of Diego Garcia, a vital British and American joint military outpost in the ...

The U.S. Air Force has increased the number of F-15s sent to Diego Garcia to provide force protection, a U.S. defense official has confirmed to The War Zone. During America’s accelerated bombing ...

Under the deal, the U.K. can continue leasing the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, keeping the key military facility in British and American hands for at least 99 years. U.S. Secretary of ...

Diego Garcia, the air base the US may use if it decides to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities, is a speck of an island in the Indian Ocean that few associate with the Middle East. But the US has ...

FC Dallas homegrown midfielder Diego Garcia has been called into the June US U19 camp by Head Coach Rob Valentino. This is ...

The largest Chagos island hosts the joint U.S.-U.K. Diego Garcia naval and air base. It is one of the U.S. military's main ways of projecting power into the Indo-Pacific, a region toward which the ...

Diego Garcia is located in the middle of the Indian Ocean, strategically positioned between Asia and Africa. The base may be thousands of miles from Washington, but it is within flying distance of ...

And it didn’t take me long to realize why we were there: Diego Garcia was and remains an extremely important military facility shared by the US and UK.

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...