The agreement allows India to set up a satellite tracking station in Mauritius, boosting maritime surveillance amid increasing Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean.

Great Nicobar Island is located about 40 to 90 nautical miles, approximately 74 to 167 kilometres, from the northern entrance of the Strait of Malacca, the key maritime passage linking the Indian ...

In the Biden administration’s waning months, U.S. officials supported, indeed urged, Britain to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Smack in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the Chagos Archipelago ...

President Trump’s comments regarding the island’s potential use in a strike on Iran show the island’s continued importance in ...

The U.K. is blocking U.S. use of two key bases for an attack on Iran, according to a report by The Times. Both Diego Garcia, ...

During a recent panel discussion titled “Security Environment in the Indo-Pacific and Sri Lankan Diplomacy”, organised by the Embassy of Japan in collaboration with Dr. George I. H. Cooke, Senior ...

For the Indian Navy, geography defines India's strategic outlook. With its northern land spread, interlocked majorly between China and Pakistan, India's often underappreciated but greatest strategic ...

Analysts suggest that claims of an imminent Russian threat—especially around debates on Greenland or NATO postures—may be mischaracterized, with some leaders describing alleged threats as exaggerated ...

Four Chagossians return to the Chagos Islands, challenging the UK-Mauritius sovereignty transfer and highlighting ongoing ...

Donald Trump has warned the UK against ‘giving away’ Diego Garcia as London moves to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos ...

The commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps naval force has announced that the IRGC’s intelligence unit maintains round-the-clock surveillance over the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most ...

Some two dozen member countries joined the first meeting of the Board of Peace in Washington today with more than $16 billion in financial pledges.