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 — 2026-09-15

Houthis expand Yemen control as Saudi infrastructure targeted; Ukraine conducts deep strikes on Russian energy

Ukrainian forces conducted significant deep strikes on Russian infrastructure on September 14-15, targeting the Atlant Aero drone manufacturing facility in Taganrog with direct hits causing explosions and fire, and striking the Syzran oil refinery in Samara Oblast—capacity 8.9 million tons annually—with documented damage to the crude distillation unit AVT-6 and tank farm. These operations align with an ongoing campaign degrading Russian rear-area logistics and military production capacity. Additionally, Ukrainian forces destroyed three electronic warfare stations in Bryansk Oblast and confirmed destruction of three and damage to eight fuel storage tanks at Slavyansk-on-Kuban oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai. Ukrainian military intelligence reported ballistic missile threat elevation and tracked MiG-31K fighters equipped with hypersonic Kindzhal missiles, indicating sustained Russian air campaign preparation.

The Houthi movement continued its military expansion in Yemen on September 15, with confirmed territorial gains of approximately 82 square kilometers across multiple fronts, including the strategically significant Al Hudaydah Governorate. Concurrent with territorial advances, Houthi forces conducted coordinated drone and ballistic missile strikes against Saudi Arabian energy infrastructure, including attacks on Aramco's Abha bulk plant that caused documented fires and damage to the East-West pipeline, forcing Saudi suspension of crude oil loadings at the Yanbu Red Sea terminal. CCTV footage captured a Houthi ballistic missile launch from Taiz airport followed immediately by Saudi airstrike response, exemplifying the persistent tit-for-tat escalation pattern. Western military assessments conclude that Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces lack capacity to halt Houthi advances or retake the key Red Sea port of Mokha, recently seized by Houthi forces.

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