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Iranians follow a truck carrying the coffins of Iran's intelligence minister Esmail Khatib and, according to Iranian officials, his wife and daughter, during a funeral procession in Tehran, Iran, Friday, March 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Israel threatens surge as Britain condemns Tehran targeting a U.S.-U.K. air base

By Jon Gambrell, Samy Magdy and Sam Mednick - Associated Press

This image released by the U.S. Navy shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Island group. (U.S. Navy via AP, File)

What to know about Diego Garcia after Iran targets the remote island’s key U.S. military base

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

This image, released by the U.S. Navy, shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia. (U.S. Navy via AP, File)

Brits deny use of Diego Garcia for any U.S. strikes on Iran: Report

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This image, released by the U.S. Navy, shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia. (U.S. Navy via AP, File)

U.S. backs Britain’s Chagos Islands deal, will talk with Mauritius over Diego Garcia base

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the U.S. Navy on Feb. 11, 2023 shows U.S. Navy Sailors aboard the USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) during a routine port visit at Diego Garcia. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Elliot Schaudt/U.S. Navy via AP)

Trump blasts U.K. plan to transfer island with U.S. Navy base as ‘great stupidity’

By Jeff Mordock and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This image, released by the U.S. Navy, shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia. (U.S. Navy via AP, File)

Trump slams U.K. deal to hand over Chagos Islands after he previously backed it

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Britain, the United States of America, India, Mauritius and Diego Garcia illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

U.S. can not afford to lose Diego Garcia

By Alexander B. Gray and Cleo Paskal

American base Diego Garcia and China illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Abrego Garcia dominates headlines while Diego Garcia fades into strategic peril

By Jed Babbin

Chagossian Bernadette Dugasse speaks, during an interview with The Associated Press, at her home in London, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Displaced Chagos islanders fear they will never go home after a U.K.-Mauritius deal

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at a military headquarters in north-west London, Thursday, May 22, 2025, following a deal on the Chagos Islands. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych, pool)

U.K. agrees to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it says protects a key U.S. base

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Britain's colonialist and China's colonialist present illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Britain atones for its colonialist past by encouraging China’s colonialist present

By Clifford D. May

Chagossians Whitney Tranquille, center, attends a protest to response the U.K. announcement to agree to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius and against their "Exclusion" from Chagos negotiations, outside the House of Parliament, in London, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Chagos islanders displaced for U.S. military base protest deal on their future made without them

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

The guided-missile submarine USS Florida conducts a fast cruise in Diego Garcia following a remote crew exchange and the first voyage repair period of her second deployment.

Diego Garcia, U.S. airbase in Chagos Archipelago, threatened

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Wyoming father, son touched by gifts from the heart

By KATHY BROWN - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Monterey County Weekly, law enforcement officers walk down Mae Street from Del Monte Avenue in Salinas, Calif., Wednesday, May 21, 2014. A Salinas police officer was hit in the head with a bottle when a demonstration against recent police shootings turned violent, authorities said. The officer was responding to a fatal shooting around 9 p.m. Wednesday and was attempting to perform CPR on the victim when he was hit, Salinas Deputy Police Chief Terry Gerhardstein told the Salinas Californian. (AP Photo/Monterey County Weekly, Nic Coury) MAGS OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE MUST CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY MONTEREY HERALD OUT SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL OUT

Protest against police in Salinas turns violent

Associated Press

Navy base on the line as Mauritius tries to pit U.S., U.K. in island’s sovereignty bid

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times