The U.S. has described the base, which is home to about 2,500 mostly American personnel, as "an all but indispensable ...
The mission of the U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia is "To provide logistic support to operational forces forward deployed to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf area of responsibility in ...
On the remote tropical island of Diego Garcia, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, lies a secretive, strategically vital US military base The base has served as a launchpad for US military ...
The US has been using the area for defence purposes since 1966 and Diego Garcia is a key strategic location for military operations in the Indian Ocean. Now acting judge of the British Indian ...
For nearly 50 years, Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has been a critical part of the American global ...
Diego Garcia is part of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory (Biot), an area described as being "constitutionally distinct" from the UK. It is administered from London by a ...
Enduring disputed claims over Diego Garcia, an atoll within the Chagos archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean, have come to ...
The British government said Wednesday it still plans to hand over a contested Indian Ocean archipelago ... base on the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia, would remain under U.K. control ...