Armenians wait forlornly for relatives at border with Azerbaijan

People gather near the Armenian border guard post on the road leading from Armenia to Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region, near the village of Kornidzor, Armenia September 21, 2023. REUTERS/Irakli Gedenidze

NEAR KORNIDZOR, Armenia (Reuters) - One man was hoping to find his son, another was looking for his father.

In a long, cold vigil at Armenia's border with Azerbaijan on Thursday, a small group of Armenian men stood waiting for relatives they hoped would find a way home after the latest violent twist in decades of conflict between the two countries.