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 — 2026-10-04

Ukraine secures €1.35bn German aid as frontlines shift; Yemen conflict spreads

Ukraine conducted an extensive massed drone strike operation spanning the night of 3-4 October, targeting multiple Russian airfields and military installations including Maykop, Gvardeyskoe, and Primorsk-Akht over a nine-hour window (21:00 to 04:00). The multi-target scope indicates Ukrainian capability to execute coordinated, deep-strike operations against Russian rear-area infrastructure despite Russian air defense and electronic warfare systems. Such operations, if successfully executed against strategic targets, disrupt Russian force projection and logistics. The operation represents escalation in Ukrainian willingness to target Russian territory far from the contact line, consistent with established patterns of attrition-focused Ukrainian strategy.

Yemen's civil conflict showed mixed territorial dynamics on 4 October, with government forces (Presidential Leadership Council) gaining modest ground in Al Bayda' and Lahij governorates—approximately 4 km² and 5 km² respectively—according to updated conflict control mapping. These gains represent continued PLC efforts to consolidate control in central and southern Yemen. Concurrently, Houthi (Ansar Allah) forces expanded significantly in Ta'izz Governorate, capturing approximately 92 km² in a single operational period. The disparity in territorial change reflects Houthi operational momentum in their stronghold region, though both sides remain locked in protracted competition for control of Yemen's fragmented territory.

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