What is Intel Mapper

Intel Mapper is a live open-source-intelligence (OSINT) war map. It follows four theatres around the clock: the Russian invasion of Ukraine; the wider Middle East, from the Israel–Lebanon front and Syria to Yemen, the Red Sea and the Gulf; East Africa, where the war in Sudan and the conflicts in Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan are mapped; and Asia-Pacific, centred on Myanmar's civil war. Every marker on the map is a single, dated event: a strike, a shoot-down, a ground assault, a naval incident, a capture, or a significant political statement, placed at the most precise location the sources support.

Events are gathered from monitored Telegram channels, X accounts, official military statements (for example the Ukrainian General Staff) and mapping projects such as DeepState and the Wikipedia conflict maps. Each report is read by a language model that extracts what happened, who did it, where and when, and then passed through a chain of deterministic checks: duplicate detection across channels, geocoding against our own settlement gazetteer and OpenStreetMap, country and region consistency guards, and frontline snapping for close-combat reports.

Every event carries a confidence score and a source count. One channel claiming a strike is not the same as three independent channels plus satellite-derived thermal detections, and the map shows that difference. Uncertain locations are drawn with an orange ring instead of a hard pin. Our methodology page explains the scoring in detail.

How to use the map

Switch theatres with the buttons at the top. The layer panel lets you toggle borders and control zones, event markers, the heat-map of activity, live military flights, and the Recent changes layers that hatch every area which changed hands in the last seven days (DeepState for Ukraine, Wikipedia-derived control maps for the Middle East). Click any marker for the full report, media and sources; click a control zone for its statistics. The time slider at the bottom replays borders and the previous 24 hours of events for any day since February 2026. A daily brief for each theatre is published every evening.

Coverage areas

Ukraine war map. The full contact line from Kharkiv to Kherson, deep-strike campaigns on Russian refineries, air bases and logistics, and Russian drone and missile waves against Ukrainian cities, with control changes taken from DeepState.

Middle East conflict map. The Israel–Lebanon front, Syria after Assad, the West Bank and Gaza, Iraq, and Iranian activity, including strikes on shipping and Gulf infrastructure.

Sudan war map. The war between the Sudanese army and the RSF in Darfur, Kordofan, Khartoum and Gezira, with control areas from the Wikipedia map of the conflict.

East Africa conflict map. Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan on one map, with the areas held by each armed group.

Myanmar civil war map. The junta and the resistance, air strikes, captured towns, and the areas held by the Arakan Army, KIA, KNU, PDF and other groups.

Yemen and Red Sea shipping attacks map. The Houthi–Government war, Houthi attacks on shipping, coalition strikes, and control of the Bab al-Mandab approaches, using the Wikipedia control map and verified capture reports.

Today's brief — 2026-10-22

Houthi strikes hit Saudi targets as Iran-Israel rhetoric hardens; Russia mounts massed strike on Kyiv

Russia conducted a massed combined strike on Kyiv using Iskander-M, S-400 and Zircon/Oniks missiles alongside 210 Shahed, Gerbera and decoy drones. Ukrainian air defence reportedly downed or suppressed 181 drones, with 32 impact sites recorded. Zelensky said three ballistic missiles carried cluster munitions, consistent with reported Iskander cluster-warhead use against the capital. Ukraine responded with strikes inside Russia. Ukrainian forces reportedly struck the 75th Arsenal in Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, a facility associated with repairing Buk-M1, Buk-M2 and S-300V air defence systems; damage is being assessed. A separate report claimed over 600 drones were launched toward areas near the Russian Ministry of Defence in Moscow, along with strikes on plants producing armoured vehicles and air defence maintenance facilities. The scale of these claims is single-sourced and not independently verified, but the exchange illustrates continued long-range targeting of defence-industrial and air defence infrastructure on both sides.

Houthi forces continued long-range attacks on Saudi Arabia on 22 October. Spokesman Yahya Saree claimed missile and drone strikes on four Saudi targets, including a direct hit on the Defense Ministry headquarters in Riyadh; these claims are not independently confirmed. In the Eastern Province, an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam killed two people, and injured persons were taken to hospital, though the attacker has not been identified. Saudi Aramco ordered staff at its Dhahran headquarters to evacuate and work remotely, citing a Houthi strike on the headquarters earlier this month and attacks near Dammam airport and Shaybah that killed four. The Saudi-led coalition reported intercepting a ballistic missile aimed at Najran, where civil defence later declared an all-clear after an early warning. French President Macron pledged all necessary support to Riyadh. Separately, a Houthi fighter was filmed displaying a Turkish-made BMC Kirpi armoured vehicle reportedly captured from government forces at the Marib front, a visible sign of battlefield losses on that axis.

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