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 — 2026-10-01

U.S. completes Iraq withdrawal; Turkey captures 2013 bombing suspect; Ukraine reports record September losses

Ukrainian General Staff reported record monthly Russian casualty figures of 46,230 personnel losses in September 2026, the highest single month on record and representing an escalating trend throughout the year. Ukrainian forces conducted sustained strikes against Russian military infrastructure, including a rocket-artillery weapons storage facility in Luhansk or Donetsk Oblast, munitions depots near Verkhnokamianka, and weapons concentrations near Timoshivka. Ukraine also struck targets deep inside Russia—a drone storage facility in Oryol, an oil facility in Samara, and a supply depot in Bryansk—demonstrating extended operational reach. President Zelensky stated operations would continue against Russian military targets.

The United States completed its military withdrawal from Iraq after more than two decades of presence, marking a strategic pivot in Middle Eastern engagement. Iraqi officials expressed mixed reactions: celebration over sovereignty restoration but concern that the departure could create a power vacuum exploitable by Iran-backed militias and residual Islamic State cells. Iraqi Prime Minister announced a roadmap to disarm militias outside state control by June 2027, indicating Baghdad's intent to reassert central authority. Simultaneously, Turkey announced withdrawal of the Başika-Zilkan military base in northern Iraq, further reducing foreign military footprint in the region.

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