In the dark, a young Yemeni soldier nervously scans the row of battered cars approaching his dusty checkpoint situated amid the volcanic mountains of Yemen’s remote north. “Get out of this place, it’s dangerous,” he shouts at passing drivers, pointing the beam of his flashlight into the shadowy palm trees by the roadside. Since last summer, nearly 1,000 people have been killed as Yemen’s Army battles Zaidi Shiite insurgents throughout the bleak, fossilized landscape of northern Yemen.Full Story