A new satellite image showed a buildup of U.S. Air Force assets at Diego Garcia, a strategic American base in the Indian ...

The Germans made the Indian Ocean the center of U-boat activity in 1943 after their defeat in the north Atlantic. The Eastern Fleet struggled to respond, with much painful re-inventing of the ...

Ocean freight rates for vessels operating in the Mideast are soaring as risks rise around the Strait of Hormuz and Iran ...

The naming of the Indian Ocean has sparked debate for centuries, with Indonesia and Pakistan objecting to India's prominence ...

In the Eastern Mediterranean, the UK carved out a base on Cyprus.And in the Indian Ocean, it pressured Mauritius, a former British colony, to sell the Chagos Islands for just £3m.

The U.S. has been regularly rotating B-2 bombers to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean since at least April when the bombers ...

FILE - A worker installs names of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the wall of the Tsunami Museum ahead of the 10th anniversary of the killer waves in Banda Aceh, Aceh province ...

France favors a system where the islands would be jointly managed by the two countries, but the U.K.'s decision last year to hand over control of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

The second new species was found in the same fracture in the Indian Ocean at a depth of 22,669 feet, researchers said. The black pearl sea cucumber is deep purple in color with thick skin ...