On a remote coral atoll in the Indian Ocean, the secretive air base of Diego Garcia has been crucial to U.S. military strategy for the past 25 years. It was the main launch pad for bombing strikes ...

Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian Ocean, is about 1,300 miles northeast of Mauritian capital Port Louis. For half a century, it has been a staging area for major ...

Diego Garcia Viewed From OrbitThomas Pesquet: Diego Garcia, I didn’t know the island is a military base, but you learn something new everyday, look up its history on your own! L’atoll Diego ...

Diego Garcia, a 10-square-mile British island leased to the U.S. Navy, sits in the middle of the Indian Ocean, just south of the hard-hit Maldives.

Welcome to Diego Garcia–6,720 acres (2,720 hectares) of restricted military base on a depopulated atoll in the middle of the Indian Ocean, 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from the nearest continent.

The U.S. Naval Support Facility on Diego Garcia, which the Navy dubs the “footprint of freedom,” lies halfway between East Africa and Southeast Asia, with a 2-mile-long runway and an 80-square ...

More U.S. Navy via AP Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian Ocean, is about 1,300 miles northeast of Mauritian capital Port Louis.