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 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 — 2026-10-16

Yemen repels Houthi assault; Gaza strikes; Russia launches 149 drones at Ukraine

Ukrainian air force monitoring reported that Russia launched 149 Shahed-type, Gerbera and decoy drones from Oryol, occupied Donetsk and Crimea. Ukrainian figures state that 114 were downed or suppressed and that 27 hit 24 locations. Separately, numerous single jet-powered Geran-3 transits were tracked across western, central and northern Ukraine, including toward Bila Tserkva, Zaporizhzhia, Kovel, Busk, Kharkiv, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Kyiv Oblast, Kremenchuk, Odesa Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnytskyi. A Bandero mini cruise missile was also reported over southern Chernihiv Oblast, heading toward Kozelets. The geographic spread of these tracks, reaching from the Polish border region to the central and southern oblasts, indicates a wide-area saturation approach rather than a single-target raid.

Yemeni Government forces reportedly repelled a Houthi ground assault on Mount Han, west of Taiz, overnight, with local military sources claiming significant Houthi losses. The report rests on a single source and has not been independently confirmed. In Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces state that a strike in northern Gaza killed Hamas weapons-production commander Mohammed Hala, whom it describes as a participant in the October 7 attacks. A separate IDF-reported strike in Khan Younis killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Ahmad Jabrin Tawfiq Dalha. These are single-source military claims and have not been independently verified. In the West Bank, a report describes Israeli harassment of Palestinian drivers, after which one driver reportedly lost control of a vehicle during an attack attempt. Details of that incident remain limited.

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