Homesick and bellicose, Karabakh's exiled Azeris yearn for return

Gassan Akhmedov, an 80-year-old elder of a refugee neighbourhood in Azeri capital, talks to a reporter outside his home, in Baku, Azerbaijan October 29, 2020. Picture taken October 29, 2020. REUTERS/Olzhas Auyezov

BAKU (Reuters) - Gassan Akhmedov has one last wish - to return to the land of his birth, a land he says has been occupied for more than 25 years.

That dream came a step closer, the 80-year-old resident of Baku says, when Azeri troops captured the region of Jabrayil as part of their southern march on the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.