Syria Accountability Act

Syria Accountability Act
Great Seal of the United States
Long titleSyria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act
Acronyms (colloquial)SALSRA
Enacted bythe 108th United States Congress
Legislative history

The Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act (SALSRA,Pub. L. 108–175 (text) (PDF)) is a bill of the United States Congress passed into law on December 12, 2003.

The bill's stated purpose is to end what the United States sees as Syrian support for terrorism, to end Syria's presence in Lebanon, which has been in effect since the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, to stop Syria's alleged development of WMDs, to cease Syria's illegal importation of Iraqi oil and to end illegal shipments of military items to anti-US forces in Iraq.

The bill was sponsored by Representative Eliot L. Engel (D) from New York and was introduced April 12, 2003.