(Raises death toll, adds attack on town)
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Tank and troops attack town near Lebanese border
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Arab League head warns of possible civil war
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Anti-Assad demonstrations flare after Friday prayers
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Defecting general predicts long struggle to topple Assad
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
AMMAN, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Unrest in Syria cost at least 15 lives on Friday and troops backed by tanks attacked Zabadani, a town near the border with Lebanon, an opposition leader said, in the first big military assault since Arab League monitors arrived last month.
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