The archipelago was acquired in the 1960s and a US military base established by displacing the indigenous population to ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is strictly out of bounds to most civilians, despite being home to beaches ...

It was a spectacular example of a non-event, alloyed by pure symbolism and cynicism.  Here was a British government offering ...

Fears that Britain could hand over Gibraltar or the Falkland Islands have been cooled by a cabinet minister amid fury over ...

The Government does not have the Get Out of Jail Free card it imagines when it comes to the matter of the Chagos Islands.

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...