One live map for the connected conflicts of the Middle East: Israel and Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen and the Gulf, with every reported strike and launch placed on the map.
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Yemen's Saudi-backed government, led by President Rashad al-Alimi, announced a full-scale military offensive to retake Houthi-controlled territory and restore nationwide government authority. The operation explicitly prohibits tribalism and sectarian violence. Concurrent with this announcement, Houthi forces expanded territorial control in Ta'izz Governorate by approximately 161 square kilometers and seized the residence of Yemen's Parliament Speaker in Al-Hawban following armed clashes. A tanker reported multiple explosions approximately 60 nautical miles south of Al Mukha in the Red Sea with crew safely evacuated. These developments underscore the Yemen conflict's persistence despite years of Saudi-led intervention, with control of key infrastructure and maritime routes remaining contested.
The United States signaled de-escalation regarding potential Iran contingency operations by withdrawing B-1B Lancer strategic bombers from RAF Fairford in the UK. However, Washington continues providing intelligence and targeting assistance to Saudi-led anti-Houthi operations while declining direct kinetic involvement, reportedly viewing the conflict as a distraction from broader Iran concerns. U.S. officials stated America would only assist if Saudi military operations faced critical difficulties. Meanwhile, reported explosions occurred in the Strait of Hormuz near Qeshm Island following Iranian fire directed at vessels allegedly breaching Iran's maritime blockade, consistent with earlier patterns. A C-130 cargo aircraft with disabled transponder landed in Tehran, reportedly suggesting covert military or strategic logistics operations.
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Changes are measured by comparing successive versions of the source maps; areas are approximate.
This is the Middle East view of Intel Mapper, a live open-source-intelligence (OSINT) map. It follows several connected conflicts on one map: the Israel–Lebanon front, Gaza and the West Bank, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen with the Red Sea and the Gulf. Every marker is one dated, geolocated event, such as an air strike, a missile or drone launch, an interception, a clash, a raid or a deployment, taken from monitored Telegram channels and X accounts and from official military statements.
When a report gives both a launch area and a target, for example a ballistic-missile launch toward Israel or a strike flown from one country into another, the map draws the path from origin to impact and replays the flight. Air-raid sirens and interceptions are separate marker types, so an alert is not confused with an impact, and a shoot-down is not counted as a hit. Strikes are placed at the most specific location named in the report, down to a facility or neighbourhood where one is given.
Areas of control in Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories, and Yemen are built from the Wikipedia conflict-map projects, which volunteer editors update from published reports. Intel Mapper re-renders them twice a day, and captures confirmed by reports are applied between those updates. The Recent changes layer hatches every area that changed hands in the last seven days and names the nearest settlement. Small redraws of the source maps that are not real changes are filtered out.
Optional layers show live military flights picked up from open flight-tracking data and the locations of US bases in the region. Warships and carrier groups reported at sea are placed at sea, and merchant shipping incidents have their own marker type.
Each event carries a source count and a confidence score out of 10. A claim made by one channel is labelled single-source; the score rises when independent channels, official statements or footage confirm it. Events whose location is known only to region level are drawn with an orange ring instead of a precise pin. Reporting from this region is often partisan and frequently contradictory, so statements are attributed to whoever made them and markers are corrected or merged as better information arrives. The methodology page explains how reports are checked.
Open the full map to switch on control zones, the activity heat-map, military flights and bases, to tap any marker for its source text and media, and to move the time slider back and replay earlier days. A written daily brief summarises each day for this theatre, and the Red Sea page covers Yemen and shipping in more detail.
Israel and the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, and the Red Sea and Gulf, including events in neighbouring states when they are part of the same conflicts.
Yes, when they are reported. Launches, flights and impacts are separate events, and when a report gives both the launch area and the target the path between them is drawn on the map.
They are built from the Wikipedia conflict-map projects for Syria, Lebanon, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Yemen, re-rendered twice a day, with report-confirmed captures applied between updates.
Events are added within minutes of being reported, around the clock. Control areas are refreshed twice a day.
Intel Mapper aggregates open-source reports from monitored Telegram and X channels, geolocates them, cross-checks duplicates across sources and assigns a confidence score. Entries are updated as new confirmations arrive.