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Abstract In this paper we consider the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic wave propagation in a homogeneous chiral environment by obstacles. The model is simplified to a two-dimensional scattering problem, and is formulated as a boundary value problem in a bounded domain by introducing the nonlocal boundary conditions associated with Dirichlet-to-Neumann operators. An a posteriori error estimate is established when the truncation of the nonlocal boundary operators takes place. The crucial part of the error analysis is to develop a duality argument and use the Bohren decomposition of the electromagnetic fields. The a posteriori error estimate consists of two parts, finite element approximation error and the truncation error of boundary operators which decays exponentially with respect to the truncation parameter. Numerical experiments are also presented to show the robustness and effectiveness of our numerical algorithm.