Ramgoolam knows its value. Diego Garcia served as a base for U.S. B-52 and B-1 bombers striking Iraq and Afghanistan and for tankers refueling U.S. aircraft throughout the region.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Those who knew and loved Toyota employee Diego Garcia are feeling immense grief after he died on the job Tuesday when a heavy object fell from a forklift. 39-year-old ...

Starmer said the deal to secure the U.K.-U.S. military base in Diego Garcia — to be leased for more than $100 million a year — is vital for Britain's defense, intelligence and national security.

More U.S. Navy via AP Diego Garcia, the largest in the Chagos group in the central Indian Ocean, is about 1,300 miles northeast of Mauritian capital Port Louis.

Diego Garcia is an atoll — a ring-shaped island formed from a coral reef — just south of the equator. It is a territory of the United Kingdom and is home to a joint U.S./U.K. military base.

In the 1960s, in the middle of the Cold War the US secreted away a slither of land in the Indian Ocean. Today, Diego Garcia is one of its most important and secretive military bases – but a new ...