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 — 2026-10-23

Hebron attack prompts West Bank lockdown; Russian drone waves continue across Ukraine

Russian long-range drone activity dominated the Ukrainian air picture on 23 October. Ukrainian air monitoring logged a large number of jet-powered Geran-3 Shahed-type drones moving through Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Poltava, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv oblasts, with some groups travelling from Belarus toward Kyiv Oblast and others from the Black Sea. Alerts also reported a Banderol mini cruise missile heading toward Chernihiv and a ballistic missile heading toward Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. Guided glide bombs (KAB) were tracked toward northeastern Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts. These are air-alert reports rather than confirmed impact assessments, and most do not specify damage. A Telegram photo report documented a night strike on the Marshal plant in Russian-held Luhansk, but the weapon type and damage were not specified. Imagery also showed Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters carrying up to 12 F7 Litavr interceptor drones on external racks, a sign of continued adaptation to the Shahed threat.

On 23 October, two Palestinian gunmen reportedly opened fire at an Israeli Defense Forces checkpoint at Yehuda (Judea) Junction near Hebron, firing hundreds of rounds and wounding Israeli soldiers. Reported casualty figures differ across sources, with one account citing six soldiers wounded, two critically, and another citing five Israelis wounded. Both attackers were killed. IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said rapid action by soldiers prevented a larger attack, and a large ammunition cache was reportedly found in the attackers' vehicle. Israeli assessments describe a planned mass-casualty attack against travelers on Route 35. Hebron was cordoned off, and Prime Minister Netanyahu reportedly ordered expanded measures. He said forces would enter neighbourhoods, evacuate residents, and search house to house to destroy what he termed terrorist infrastructure. Minister Ben Gvir called for full Israeli control of the West Bank.

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