Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is a paradise of lush vegetation and white-sand beaches, surrounded by crystal blue waters. But this is no tourist destination.

Pope Leo XIV has said he is "delighted" the UK has agreed to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Speaking to a delegation ...

With diplomacy all but stalled between Washington and Tehran after the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites amid clashes ...

The base at Diego Garcia enables the U.S. to conduct operations in support of regional stability and provide rapid crisis response, the U.S. Seventh Fleet said.

The pontiff met in the Vatican with former residents of Diego Garcia, the island in the Indian Ocean, who were removed in the ...

The Diego Garcia atoll - the biggest of the islands, which covers just 10 square miles of dry land - serves as a strategically important base for navy ships and long-range bomber aircraft.

Diego Garcia is the southernmost atoll of the Chagos Group; it lies in S. lat. 7° 26′, E. long. 72° 23′, and forms the last of the great chain of coral formations reaching from the Laccadive ...

Unlike Guam, Diego Garcia has no inhabitants resisting the US military. All of the island’s residents were forcibly removed in the early 1970s.

Diego Garcia: The tropical island ‘hell’ for dozens of stranded migrants 11 June 2023 HANDOUT An image provided by one of the migrants shows people on the deck of their fishing boat ...