Tag: Diego Garcia

• Wednesday, October 14th 2026 - 21:53 UTC

  Farage proposes offering Trump Diego Garcia in exchange for his silence on the Falklands

  

  Reform UK leader c has said that, if he were prime minister, he would offer US President Donald Trump the use in perpetuity of the Diego Garcia military base, in the Chagos archipelago, in exchange for him to stop talking about the Falklands. The proposal sparked a clash with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who called it “humiliating”, and prompted the White House to come to Farage’s defence.

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• Saturday, March 21st 2026 - 10:54 UTC

  London condemns Iranian attack on Diego Garcia, confirms RAF defending the base

  

  Britain's Ministry of Defence condemned on Saturday the launch of two Iranian intermediate-range ballistic missiles at the joint US-UK military base on Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Neither projectile struck the installation.

• Wednesday, January 21st 2026 - 11:21 UTC

  Why the Chagos Islands are strategically vital to US and UK military operations

  

  The Chagos Archipelago is of major military significance as it hosts the strategically located Diego Garcia base.

• Saturday, November 5th 2022 - 11:03 UTC

  Chagos: Mauritius and UK agree military base on Diego García will remain, says Foreign Secretary

  

  The UK and Mauritius have agreed to hold talks on the future of the disputed British Indian Ocean Overseas Territory/Chagos Islands, and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the countries agreed that the UK-US military base on Diego Garcia will continue to operate whatever the results of the talks.

• Friday, May 24th 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  No Parallels between Falklands and Chagos

  

  In a move that will no doubt be greeted favorably in Buenos Aires, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly demanded on Wednesday that Britain give up control over the Chagos Islands.