Live map
Global conflict & military event map.
Where the world's news is reporting military and conflict activity right now — plotted on a live 3D globe from GDELT's index of worldwide news coverage over the last 24 hours.
Each pulsing ring marks a place named in recent worldwide news coverage matching conflict and military terms; brighter, higher-rising glows mean more articles referenced that location in the last 24 hours. This is a map of media attention — a proxy for where events are being reported — not a feed of confirmed strikes, battles, or casualties.
The globe is a progressive enhancement. The full ranked list of reported event locations is in the table below regardless of WebGL support.
Top reported event locations
| # | Location | Sample weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyiv, Ukraine | 42 |
| 2 | Gaza | 40 |
| 3 | Tehran, Iran | 33 |
| 4 | Rafah, Gaza | 30 |
| 5 | Tel Aviv, Israel | 28 |
| 6 | Bakhmut, Ukraine | 26 |
| 7 | Beirut, Lebanon | 24 |
| 8 | Kharkiv, Ukraine | 23 |
| 9 | Damascus, Syria | 22 |
| 10 | Khartoum, Sudan | 21 |
| 11 | Sanaa, Yemen | 20 |
| 12 | Red Sea | 19 |
| 13 | Taiwan Strait | 18 |
| 14 | Kashmir | 16 |
| 15 | Korean DMZ | 15 |
| 16 | Mogadishu, Somalia | 14 |
| 17 | Goma, DR Congo | 14 |
| 18 | Sahel, Mali | 13 |
| 19 | Baghdad, Iraq | 12 |
| 20 | South China Sea | 11 |
Showing a built-in sample set of well-known global hotspots for context — live GDELT mentions were unavailable. Weights are illustrative, not article counts.
Signals come from the GDELT Project GEO API, which indexes locations named in worldwide online news coverage. We query the last 24 hours for articles matching military and conflict terms and plot each place by how often it is mentioned. This measures news coverage intensity, not verified events. A larger, brighter glow means many articles referenced that location — it is not a confirmation of a strike, battle, troop movement, or casualties, and coverage is skewed toward English-language and heavily-reported regions. When the live feed is unavailable we show a built-in sample set of well-known global hotspots, clearly labelled as context rather than live mentions. Treat this as a media-attention heatmap, not ground truth. See Methodology.