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 — 2026-09-19
Ukraine reports 213 clashes amid Russian drone surge; Houthis strike Saudi Arabia
On day 1,669 of the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukrainian forces reported 213 combat clashes across all frontline sectors on 19 September. Russian operations included one ballistic strike, 89 airstrikes (employing 312 guided bombs), and 10,588 kamikaze drone attacks, alongside 2,952 artillery strikes. Ukrainian air defense intercepted or suppressed 141 aerial targets overnight, including two Kh-35 anti-ship missiles and approximately 174 Shahed/Gerbera drones—roughly half jet-powered variants—along with decoy drones. The volume of Russian drone attacks and guided munitions reflects sustained attrition on both sides and Russia's apparent prioritization of quantity-based pressure tactics.
Houthi forces conducted another attack on Saudi Arabia on 19 September, targeting Riyadh and surrounding areas with ballistic missiles and/or unmanned aerial vehicles. Saudi Civil Defence issued air-threat warnings over Riyadh and al-Kharj before issuing an all-clear as the threat passed. No specific impact locations or casualty figures were reported. This represents a continuation of the Houthi campaign against Saudi infrastructure and populated centers, a pattern sustained throughout 2024–2026 despite Saudi-led coalition air operations and defensive measures. The attack underscores persistent Houthi capability to maintain offensive operations despite years of attrition.
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