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Battle and death in a foreign land: Ugandan peacekeepers in Somalia. America's Expanding Presence in Somalia - Global. U.S. official: CIA interrogating terror suspects in Somalia. By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent July 13, 2011 -- Updated 0137 GMT (0937 HKT) A senior U.S. official says the CIA has gone to Somalia to help interrogate terrorism suspects.

U.S. official: CIA interrogating terror suspects in Somalia

Official: CIA believes al Qaeda in Somalia increasing links to al Qaeda in YemenCIA was at questioning only "one or two times," official saysCIA gets assurances that detainees will not be mistreated, official says. The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia. Renditions, an underground prison and a new CIA base are elements of an intensifying US war, according to a Nation investigation in Mogadishu.

The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia

Nestled in a back corner of Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport is a sprawling walled compound run by the Central Intelligence Agency. Set on the coast of the Indian Ocean, the facility looks like a small gated community, with more than a dozen buildings behind large protective walls and secured by guard towers at each of its four corners.

Adjacent to the compound are eight large metal hangars, and the CIA has its own aircraft at the airport.