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

Iran threatens Gulf retaliation; Russia launches 176 drones overnight at Ukraine

The most significant Ukrainian development was a large overnight Russian drone attack. According to the Ukrainian Air Force monitoring summary, Russia launched 176 attack drones, including 92 jet-powered Shahed-type drones, Gerbera drones and decoys, from Bryansk, Oryol, Kursk and occupied areas. By 08:00, 140 of these had reportedly been downed or suppressed, and the summary reported impacts at 19 locations, although the full list of locations was not available in the tracked material. Throughout the night, individual Geran-3 jet-powered drones and small groups were tracked moving toward Kyiv and its districts, including Sviatoshyn, Pechersk, Troieshchyna and Brovary, as well as toward Poltava, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Lviv, Lutsk, Kovel, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ternopil Oblast, Volyn Oblast and Kherson Oblast. The broad geographic spread indicates that the attack was distributed across much of western, central and northern Ukraine rather than concentrated on a single target set.

On 23 October, Iranian officials issued warnings aimed at Washington and its regional partners. Tehran stated that renewed US or Israeli airstrikes would trigger retaliation across the Gulf, with potential targets including US bases, warships, airports and oil pipelines. Separately, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accused the United States of encouraging commercial vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz illegally, and warned that retaliation could extend to US bases in the region if this trend continues. Both statements originated in Tehran and were drawn from a limited number of sources, so they should be read as declaratory signalling rather than confirmed military planning. In Cairo, Egypt called for renewed diplomacy on Yemen as its parliament prepares a vote on 26 October on military support for Saudi Arabia against the Houthis.

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