More of the village's original inhabitants returned to Bakhetme in 2006 and subsequently 151 houses were built by the Kurdistan Regional Government. A second church of Mar Gewargis was built by Sarkis Aghajan Mamendo and was consecrated in April 2007. In early 2009, 248 displaced Assyrians with 62 families resided at Bakhetme. It was estimated that 1200 Assyrians inhabited Bakhetme in 2012, consisting of 700 adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East and 500 Syriac Catholics. Following the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant offensive in August 2014, the Assyrian Aid Society delivered humanitarian aid to displaced families at Bakhetme in May 2015, in which year it was reported that 88 displaced Assyrian families resided at Bakhetme. The Assyrian Aid Society also renovated the village's school in 2017. The village's population had dropped to 475 people by November 2017, and over 100 families inhabit Bakhetme as of August 2018.