The airstrip, on Abd al-Kuri Island, which rises out of the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden ... Mohammed ...

A 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island triggered huge ... Thailand and nine other nations around the Indian Ocean basin. Here is a look back at the impact ...

Mark Twain famously stated that God must have built Mauritius first, then replicated Heaven from Mauritius. This beautiful ...

A mysterious airstrip being built on a remote island in Yemen is nearing completion, according to satellite photos analyzed ...

The United Nations Children's Fund says at least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last ...

International power rivalry is playing out in the Indian Ocean region, India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on ...

Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands ...

US President-elect Donald Trump will be consulted on the UK's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands, where there is a joint US ...

The Maldives is an archipelagic state made up of islands in the Indian Ocean, and it is the smallest country in ... and it ...

A must-visit is Aapravasi Ghat, a Unesco World Heritage site that served as an immigration depot during the 19th century. It ...

India's navy launched a submarine, a destroyer and a frigate simultaneously on Wednesday to counter China's expansion into the Indian Ocean.

Kiribati is an island country in the central Pacific Ocean, and its largest island ... The Pacific Island nation was followed by Chatham Islands in New Zealand at 5:15 a.m. ET and then most ...