The United States has carried out occasional counterterrorism airstrikes in Somalia for more than a dozen years, but the frequency has risen considerably under the Trump administration and continues to surge. Africa Command disclosed 63 strikes last year, up from the previous record of 47 in 2018.

This year is on pace to set yet another record, with about 32 to date.

The first mission the Amnesty report criticizes is a Feb. 2 airstrike near the city of Jilib. An Africom news release said the strike killed one terrorist and no civilians. A website that Amnesty described as Shabab friendly claimed the strike killed a disabled girl and wounded her mother and sister. But neither report was accurate, the group said.

Instead, it said, the strike hit a house where a family of five had just sat down for dinner. It said one young woman, Nurto Kusow Omar Abukar, 18, was killed after being struck in the head by a metal fragment. Her grandmother and two younger sisters were injured by shrapnel but survived, the report said.

“Al Shabab fully controls Jilib, and members of the group live in homes in the city,” the report said. “It is plausible that Africom was targeting a nearby residence that might have contained Al Shabab members.”

The report quoted the girls’ father, Kusow Omar Abukar, whom it said was not injured, describing the blast. It described him as a 50-year-old farmer whose relatives said he was not a member of Al Shabab.

The other strike criticized in the report took place on Feb. 24, several miles north of Jilib. An Africa Command news release disclosing the strike said it killed one terrorist and no civilians.

Colonel Karns said Africom was examining the strikes. “We have a few allegations that we consider open and are still looking into,” he said. “We want to get it right.”