The Diego Garcia deal Diego Garcia is the tiny island, smaller than Manhattan, in the middle of the Indian Ocean that’s home to a major U.S. Navy and Air Force base. The military built the base ...

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

The agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, while retaining a 99-year lease for the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia, has sparked ...

An F-15E Strike Eagle that took off from Diego Garcia on Monday discovered mid-flight that one of its wheels was missing.

The 18th Wing said the wheel was recovered on the flightline at U.S. Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean ...

An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle deployed to Kadena Air Base landed safely after one of its wheels was discovered missing in ...

An F-15E Strike was flying from Diego Garcia to Kadena when it was discovered that a wheel was missing. A U.S. Air Force ...

More: In Diego Garcia’s water, “pre-positioned” freighters and tankers wait at anchor, packed with tanks, ammo, fuel, food, water, the arms and material it takes for armies, navies and air ...

While Diego Garcia may be out-of-reach, the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain is not, nor are U.S. forces at the Al-Udeid Airbase in Qatar.

Britain forcibly expelled Diego Garcia’s 2,000 indigenous people—the Chagossians—to build the military base in exchange for a $14 million discount on the UK purchase of US Polaris nuclear ...

Diego Garcia is the largest island of the British Indian Ocean Territory. But it is also claimed by the Indian Ocean state of Mauritius, which lies some 1,300 miles to the southwest.

Diego Garcia, located in the Indian Ocean, was once a British Protectorate. However, in a deeply regrettable move, the British government handed over this land to the United States in the late 1960s.