Maldives has opposed the United Kingdom’s agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, asserting its own historical sovereignty over the archipelago. President Mohamed Muizzu’s office ...

A court has delivered delivered a landmark judgment in a long-running legal battle over the future of the Chagos Islands, in ...

Yet, it reminds us that the stakes in the Iran war are rising.   That has prompted Israel to claim that Iran’s military ...

US President Donald Trump threatened to “hit and obliterate” Iran’s power plants if Tehran doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz ...

There is a particular kind of complacency that thrives in world politics: the belief that war can be geographically contained ...

Today’s headlines: in Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing, a formal presidential candidate, has left the army; The Taiwanese leader of the Kuomintang is due to visit Beijing from 7 April; The Mal ...

Try to find Diego Garcia on a map. Don’t worry, we’ll wait. It takes a moment. The atoll sits in the precise middle of the Indian Ocean, a footprint-shaped sliver of coral and palm trees so remote ...

The attack on the Diego Garcia facility is the first time in the war that Tehran has been reported to have used weapons with ...

A city founded by the Safavids who made mystical Shia Islam the empire’s faith. If faith equals beauty, can one fault faith? Perhaps the rational west and its paranoid Zionists have no eyes for beauty ...

VOLODYMYR Zelensky has claimed that Russia is mapping out US assets in the Middle East – in an alliance with Iran that helped ...

Sue Farran has previously received funding from UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) and the British Academy. She is affiliated with RESI (Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative) Colin Murray has ...

In 2015, a group of American and Canadian tourists arrived in Addu, the southernmost atoll in the Republic of Maldives, seeking to visit some of the most remote islands in the world – Peros Banhos ...