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 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.

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 — 2026-10-09

Houthis strike Riyadh airport as regional tensions escalate; Ukraine intensifies strikes on Russian logistics

Ukrainian forces conducted multiple high-impact strikes against Russian military and logistical infrastructure. Ukraine struck the Redkino Experimental Plant in Tver Oblast, which produces specialized rocket fuel for Kh-101 cruise missiles, causing fires. Ukrainian strikes destroyed a Russian fuel depot in Belgorod, targeted ammunition depots in Luhansk, and hit a drone storage facility in Donetsk. Forces reportedly destroyed a Pantsir-S1 air defense system near Sochi in Krasnodar Krai and a Russian military command post in Donetsk with Storm Shadow missiles, reportedly killing approximately 20 high-ranking officers including colonels and lieutenant colonels. Ukrainian drone raids forced Putin's aircraft to circle unable to land at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. Ukrainian forces conducted large-scale drone operations against Moscow with explosions reported. These operations reflect Ukraine's sustained campaign to degrade Russian rear-area capabilities and command infrastructure.

The Houthi movement conducted a ballistic missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on October 9, killing three Saudi citizens and wounding several others, with Saudia Airlines aircraft targeted in the strike. This represents a continued escalation of Houthi capabilities and willingness to strike Saudi Arabia's critical infrastructure. Concurrently, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy issued expanded warnings against vessels using 'unauthorized routes' across the region, extending threatened interdiction beyond the Strait of Hormuz. These parallel developments suggest coordinated or mutually reinforcing pressure against Saudi and allied shipping interests. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group returned after 321 consecutive days at sea, displaying 103 drone kill marks, underscoring sustained attrition in the theater. Saudi Arabia reported airports targeted over four days without providing casualty or damage specifics, while authorities claim to have cleared the Bab el-Mandeb Strait of Houthi forces following an offensive, though Houthi security operations in the same area suggest contested control.

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