“Could they keep an EMP localized enough to not affect themselves or Jordan?”
Loss of power grid means little to Muslims who largely still live in the pre-industrial squalor Islam is so talented at producing.
Much of the Muslim world still has power outages, etc.
Lastly, EMP is far less critical to a transportation system based upon hooves or feet than would be a modern nation state such as Israel.
“Loss of power grid means little to Muslims who largely still live in the pre-industrial squalor Islam is so talented at producing.”
Sure, but what about Assad’s own weapons systems?