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 men and women on Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia are given year-long contracts to this island that is 31 miles from tip to tip. It is in the middle of the Indian Ocean with zero cell-phone ...

The pontiff met in the Vatican with former residents of Diego Garcia, the island in the Indian Ocean, who were removed in the ...

The United States (US) has sent six stealth B-2 bombers to Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean. The island is known as an American military base. As cited from Times of India, satellite ...

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, 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.

Diego Garcia is the southernmost island in the archipelago. It began to be used as a military station in the seventies, but its importance skyrocketed after the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979.

Unlike Guam, Diego Garcia has no inhabitants resisting the US military. All of the island’s residents were forcibly removed in the early 1970s.

During his career, he was stationed at Diego Garcia for a year-long rotation starting in 2015. He said he had a moment when he first received orders to the atoll but quickly realized after ...

The 12-square-mile Diego Garcia lies nearly equidistant from Australia, India, the Saudi peninsula and Africa’s east coast. The U.S. military facility on the island “supports long-range bomber ...

The Air Force has deployed F-15 fighter jets for a force protection mission on Diego Garcia, Pacific Air Forces confirmed this week. The strategically important island in the Indian Ocean has ...