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 — 2026-10-19

Kyiv hit by ballistic missile barrage; Yemen and Iran incidents add to regional strain

The most significant event was an overnight Russian multi-wave attack on Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, involving sixteen ballistic missiles and more than 200 drones. Reported damage included energy facilities, a clinic, a school, a metro station and residential buildings. Casualty figures in the available reporting are incomplete and should be treated cautiously. US Secretary of State Rubio said President Trump was troubled by a ballistic strike on a Kyiv apartment building that killed civilians and described the difficulty of resolving the war as very frustrating. Rubio also said a software problem had affected Ukraine's early warning system several nights earlier, with EUCOM investigating; he declined to comment on the most recent night's events. Zelensky offered to halt strikes on Russian diesel facilities in exchange for Patriot missiles, and he accused Washington of pressuring Kyiv toward capitulation and restricting battlefield communications. These statements point to visible strain in the air defence relationship.

Reporting on 19 October centred on Yemen, Iran and the Gulf. The Shabwa Governor said Houthi missiles struck a government training camp at Ataq, causing heavy casualties among new recruits; he described the attack as a war crime, and the toll is not independently confirmed. Separately, the Saudi-led coalition reportedly intercepted a Houthi weapons shipment as it reached the Red Sea coast and warned vessel owners against facilitating smuggling. On the Iranian side, the Iranian Navy said two US projectiles hit a 35mm cannon at Konarak Naval Base, wounding two personnel. CENTCOM has not confirmed the claim. An IRGC spokesman also issued a veiled threat concerning seven undersea internet cables under the Strait of Hormuz, and a ballistic missile was reportedly launched from Urmia, the third launch that day, with no clear indication it was a test. US diplomatic missions issued security alerts for eleven countries in the region.

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