It's Thursday, the 27th of March. Welcome to the P.D.B. Afternoon

Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed.

First, Israel is upping the pressure on Hezbollah militants in Lebanon,

launching another series of overnight strikes that killed a senior commander of the terror group's elite Radwan force,

as well as a group of weapons smugglers.

Later in the show, the Trump administration is tightening the screws on Beijing, adding 50 Chinese tech firms to the U.S. export blacklist

in an effort to restrict the Chinese Communist Party's access to advanced American technology,

including artificial intelligence.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight, tensions continue to flare between Israel and Lebanon

as leaders in Jerusalem press forward in their campaign to degrade Hezbollah's operations

and foil the terror group's attempts to rearm. The latest strikes came overnight on Thursday, with the IDF confirming they took out a

senior battalion commander at Hezbollah's elite Radwan force in a drone strike in the

Tire district of southern Lebanon.

The commander was one of the highest ranking members of Hezbollah killed in Israeli operations

since a ceasefire took hold last November.

And that ceasefire is now barely holding together. And that's all according to our report

from the Times of Israel. Officials with the IDF said the militant leader was involved in directing

numerous attacks on Israel and IDF troops during the war last year, and in recent months,

quote, continued to engage in advancing terror attacks on the Israeli home front.

The military added that they will continue to, quote, operate in order to remove any threat

posed to the state of Israel, end quote.

Separately, in another strike on Thursday morning,

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