Syrians displaced first by war, now quake

BEIRUT — Living for years in a tent camp for displaced people in Syria's northwest, Ali Abu Yassin used to envy friends and relatives who had brick walls around them and solid ceilings over their heads.

The situation was turned on its head after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, collapsing and damaging tens of thousands of buildings and potentially leaving millions displaced.

More than 20 of Abu Yassin's relatives were killed when their apartment buildings collapsed from the quake in the nearby village of Bisnya, he said, including one cousin's entire family of 14.