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He's not only attempting to defang the term of its political potency, but also to project his own role on Jan. 6 onto Democrats.

Accompanying the raid were dozens of airstrikes that obliterated major military installations across Syria — all part of an Israeli campaign to preemptively defang Syria’s new authorities.

Hezbollah’s opponents are intent on defanging the Iran-backed group once considered one of the world’s top paramilitary factions and Lebanon’s most powerful political party.

Digital rights campaigners, Foxglove, said it showed the CMA had been "defanged."

In recent weeks, anti-Hezbollah parties worked together to choose a president and prime minister espousing policies to defang the group and strip it of its arsenal.