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 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.
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 — 2026-10-06
Syrian-Saudi Rapprochement Amid Regional Escalation; Ukraine Strikes Russian Energy Infrastructure
Ukrainian forces conducted precision strikes on Russian military and infrastructure assets, including destruction of a truck carrying Buk M3 air defense missiles near Shostka and strikes on the Snizhne Machine-Building Plant manufacturing aviation components. Ukrainian drones struck the Volodarskaya oil depot in Moscow Oblast, reportedly igniting at least two fuel tanks at Russia's largest oil depot facility in the region. Ukrainian air defense forces intercepted or suppressed 114 enemy drones overnight, with 17 impact locations recorded across multiple regions. These operations demonstrate continued Ukrainian capability to project force into Russian territory despite overall force disparities, though casualty rates remain severe with Ukrainian General Staff reporting 184 combat engagements on 6 October alone.
Syrian President Ahmad al-Shara held high-level discussions with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, signaling continued diplomatic engagement on bilateral relations and regional stability. This engagement occurs against a backdrop of heightened Israeli military activity in southern Syria, with the Syrian Network for Human Rights documenting at least 69 deaths caused by Israeli forces between December 2024 and October 2026. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz raised IDF alert levels in Gaza and threatened disproportionate retaliation amid intelligence reports of potential Hamas attacks. These parallel diplomatic and military tracks reflect competing regional pressures as major actors navigate escalating tensions.
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