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 — 2026-09-24

UN diplomacy fractures as Netanyahu addresses Assembly; Ukraine sustains intense drone/missile pressure

Ukraine sustained intensive Russian air and drone operations on 24 September, with air defense systems intercepting or suppressing 227 reported targets overnight including four Zircon anti-ship missiles, three ballistic systems, and 219 Shahed/Gerbera drones and similar platforms. Reported daily operational summaries indicated 185–277 combat clashes across all frontlines, with Russian forces executing 83 airstrikes, conducting 287 guided bomb drops, and deploying between 4,118 and 7,467 kamikaze drones. Russian drone strikes damaged multiple Kyiv data centers, reportedly knocking out internet service to approximately 100,000 households across multiple ISPs. Ukrainian forces reported destroying Russian supply infrastructure including fuel and lubricants storage depots in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, radar stations, and UAV preparation facilities near Donetsk. Multiple reactive Shahed-variant UAVs were tracked transiting across central Ukrainian oblasts including Cherkasy, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, and Ternopil, indicating sustained Russian drone operations across dispersed targets.

Israeli PM Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly on 24 September, declaring that Iran's regime will fall and asserting Israel's right to self-defense against regional threats. His speech triggered mass diplomatic walkouts by multiple delegations, with Netanyahu subsequently condemning departing representatives as 'immoral cowards.' The Iranian delegation boycotted his address entirely, displaying a portrait of assassinated commander Qassem Soleimani at their seats in symbolic protest. Netanyahu defended Israel against genocide allegations, stating 'Israel did not commit genocide—Israel prevented genocide,' and claimed to have destroyed Iranian nuclear facilities to prevent mutual destruction. He also arrived in New York despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant, transiting through Greek, Italian, and French airspace.

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