What is Intel Mapper

Intel Mapper is a live open-source-intelligence (OSINT) war map. It follows two theatres around the clock: the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the wider Middle East, from the Israel–Lebanon front and Syria to Yemen, the Red Sea and the Gulf. 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 US bases, 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. 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. The Israel–Lebanon front, Syria after Assad, the West Bank and Gaza, Iraq, and Iranian activity, including strikes on shipping and Gulf infrastructure.

Yemen and the Red Sea. 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 — 2026-09-24

Diplomatic surge amid Ukraine drone barrage; Syria stabilizes as regional order shifts

Ukraine sustained a severe overnight drone and missile assault, with air defense intercepting or suppressing 227 Russian targets including four Zircon anti-ship missiles, three ballistic systems, and approximately 219 Shahed/Gerbera drones and other platforms. Russian strikes damaged multiple Kyiv data centers, causing internet outages affecting roughly 100,000 households across several ISP networks and hosting providers. The General Staff reported 277 combat clashes across all frontlines on September 24 (Day 1674), with Russian forces conducting 83 airstrikes deploying 7,467 first-person-view drones. These figures reflect sustained Russian attrition operations and infrastructure targeting alongside offensive actions.

The UN General Assembly convened amid intensified diplomatic engagement across the Middle East, with negotiation initiatives centered on Iran policy and Syria's regional reintegration. Chinese President Xi urged the Trump administration to facilitate U.S.-Iran talks and revive the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding to resolve nuclear and conflict issues. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi held bilateral talks with UK Foreign Secretary Miliband, while Pakistan's Prime Minister met with Iranian President Pezeshkian, signaling sustained diplomatic channels despite geopolitical tensions. These engagements reflect a broader pattern of multilateral actors seeking to prevent escalation while pursuing negotiated settlements on longstanding disputes.

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